Problem #PRU-100429

Problems Algebra Arithmetic operations. Number identities

Problem

a) Joker prepares 13 blank cards. He writes a natural number on each of them. (Natural numbers are whole positive numbers.) Then for all 13 numbers he calculates their product and sum. Joker gets the same result for both. Is this some kind of trick or is it really possible? Why?

(b) What is the answer if we don’t know how many cards he uses but we know that both results are equal to 13?