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==Puzzle==
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Ten people are sitting around a round table. The sum of ten dollars is to be distributed among them according to the rule that each person receives one half of the sum that his two neighbors receive jointly. Is there a way to distribute the money?
 
Ten people are sitting around a round table. The sum of ten dollars is to be distributed among them according to the rule that each person receives one half of the sum that his two neighbors receive jointly. Is there a way to distribute the money?
  
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Ten people are sitting around a round table. The sum of ten dollars is to be distributed among them according to the rule that each person receives one half of the sum that his two neighbors receive jointly. Is there a way to distribute the money?

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