Show that if any 14 numbers are selected from the set S = {1,2, 3, ..., 25}, %3D there are at least two whose sum is 26.

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Show that if any 14 numbers are selected from the set S = {1,2,3, ... , 25},
there are at least two whose sum is 26.
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