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Consider the 1000-element subsets

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Consider all 1000-element subsets of the set $A = { 1, 2, 3, … , 2015 }$. From each such subset choose the least element. The arithmetic mean of all of these least elements is $frac{p}{q}$, where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $p + q$.

It will be:

$$frac{a_1 + a_2 + … + a_{k}}{k}$$

Obviously, one set is: ${1, 2, 3, …, 1000}$ another could be: ${1, 3, … , 1000,1001}$.

There are $2015 – 1 + 1 = 2015$ elements in set $A$. So:

$binom{2015}{1000}$ of 1000 element subsets are present.

This problem is very tough for me to solve right now…

HINTS only please! Thank you!!


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