Solving this is a matter of simple arithmetic and some logical thinking. This is another Tough Nut that you should be able to crack with the following ideas to help you.
Each of the numbers 1 to 15 is used to label one of the vertices or one of the edges of this tree. For the vertex magic investigation, a graph is said to be vertex magic if the sum of the numbers on a vertex and on all the edges joined to that vertex is the same for each vertex and we call this the magic sum. Let's suppose the magic sum is and this is the same at each vertex. The total of all the numbers 1 + 2 + ... + 15 = 120 but the numbers on the edges, say are each counted twice, and as there are 8 vertices, so