Found problems: 79
2004 Olympic Revenge, 6
For any natural $n$, $f(n)$ is the number of labeled digraphs with $n$ vertices such that for any vertex the number if in-edges is equal to the number of out-edges and the total of (in+out) edges is even. Let $g(n)$ be the odd-analogous of $f(n)$. Find $g(n)-f(n)$ with proof .
[hide=original formulation] Dado $n$ natural, seja $f(n)$ o número de grafos rotulados direcionados com $n$ vértices de modo que em cada vértice o número de arestas que chegam é igual ao número de
arestas que saem e o número de arestas total do grafo é par . Defina $g(n)$ analogamente trocando "par" por "ímpar" na definição acima. Calcule $f(n) - g (n)$.
(Observação: Um grafo rotulado direcionado é um par $G = (V, E)$ onde $V = \{1, 2, …, n\}$ e $E$ é um subconjunto de $V^2 -\{(i, i); 0 < i < n + 1\}$).[/hide]
1958 November Putnam, B6
Let a complete oriented graph on $n$ points be given. Show that the vertices can be enumerated as $v_1 , v_2 ,\ldots, v_n$ such that $v_1 \rightarrow v_2 \rightarrow \cdots \rightarrow v_n.$
2001 Saint Petersburg Mathematical Olympiad, 11.2
There are 2000 cities in a country and no roads. Prove that some cities can be connected by a road such that there would be 2 cities with 1 road passing through them, there would be 2 cities with 2 roads passim through them,...,there would be 2 cities with 1000 roads passing through them.
[I]Proposed by F. Bakharev[/i]
2024 Tuymaada Olympiad, 8
A graph $G$ has $n$ vertices ($n>1$). For each edge $e$ let $c(e)$ be the number of vertices of the largest complete subgraph containing $e$. Prove that the inequality (the summation is over all edges of $G$):
\[\sum_{e} \frac{c(e)}{c(e)-1}\le \frac{n^2}{2}.\]
1960 Czech and Slovak Olympiad III A, 4
Determine the (real) domain of a function $$y=\sqrt{1-\frac{x}{4}|x|+\sqrt{1-\frac{x}{2}|x|\,}\,}-\sqrt{1-\frac{x}{4}|x|-\sqrt{1-\frac{x}{2}|x|\,}\,}$$ and draw its graph.
2023 Ukraine National Mathematical Olympiad, 11.8
There are $2024$ cities in a country, every two of which are bidirectionally connected by exactly one of three modes of transportation - rail, air, or road. A tourist has arrived in this country and has the entire transportation scheme. He chooses a travel ticket for one of the modes of transportation and the city from which he starts his trip. He wants to visit as many cities as possible, but using only the ticket for the specified type of transportation. What is the largest $k$ for which the tourist will always be able to visit at least $k$ cities? During the route, he can return to the cities he has already visited.
[i]Proposed by Bogdan Rublov[/i]
2025 Vietnam Team Selection Test, 3
In a summer camp about Applied Maths, there are $8m+1$ boys (with $m > 5$) and some girls. Every girl is friend with exactly $3$ boys and for any $2$ boys, there is exactly $1$ girl who is their common friend. Let $n$ be the greatest number of girls that can be chosen from the camp to form a group such that every boy is friend with at most $1$ girl in the group. Prove that $n \geq 2m+1$.
2016 IFYM, Sozopol, 1
There are $2^{2n+1}$ towns with $2n+1$ companies and each two towns are connected with airlines from one of the companies. What’s the greatest number $k$ with the following property:
We can close $k$ of the companies and their airlines in such way that we can still reach each town from any other (connected graph).
2001 China Team Selection Test, 2.2
Given distinct positive integers \( g \) and \( h \), let all integer points on the number line \( OX \) be vertices. Define a directed graph \( G \) as follows: for any integer point \( x \), \( x \rightarrow x + g \), \( x \rightarrow x - h \). For integers \( k, l (k < l) \), let \( G[k, l] \) denote the subgraph of \( G \) with vertices limited to the interval \([k, l]\). Find the largest positive integer \( \alpha \) such that for any integer \( r \), the subgraph \( G[r, r + \alpha - 1] \) of \( G \) is acyclic. Clarify the structure of subgraphs \( G[r, r + \alpha - 1] \) and \( G[r, r + \alpha] \) (i.e., how many connected components and what each component is like).
2023 Mongolian Mathematical Olympiad, 3
Five girls and five boys took part in a competition. Suppose that we can number the boys and girls $1, 2, 3, 4, 5$ such that for each $1 \leq i,j \leq 5$, there are exactly $|i-j|$ contestants that the girl numbered $i$ and the boy numbered $j$ both know. Let $a_i$ and $b_i$ be the number of contestants that the girl numbered $i$ knows and the number of contestants that the boy numbered $i$ knows respectively. Find the minimum value of $\max(\sum\limits_{i=1}^5a_i, \sum\limits_{i=1}^5b_i)$.
(Note that for a pair of contestants $A$ and $B$, $A$ knowing $B$ doesn't mean that $B$ knows $A$ and a contestant cannot know themself.)
2017 Romanian Masters In Mathematics, 4
In the Cartesian plane, let $G_1$ and $G_2$ be the graphs of the quadratic functions $f_1(x) = p_1x^2 + q_1x + r_1$ and $f_2(x) = p_2x^2 + q_2x + r_2$, where $p_1 > 0 > p_2$. The graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$ cross at distinct points $A$ and $B$. The four tangents to $G_1$ and $G_2$ at $A$ and $B$ form a convex quadrilateral which has an inscribed circle. Prove that the graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$ have the same axis of symmetry.
2024-IMOC, C4
The REAL country has $n$ islands, and there are $n-1$ two-way bridges connecting these islands. Any two islands can be reached through a series of bridges. Arctan, the king of the REAL country, found that it is too difficult to manage $n$ islands, so he wants to bomb some islands and their connecting bridges to divide the country into multiple small areas. Arctan wants the number of connected islands in each group is less than $\delta n$ after bombing these islands, and the island he bomb must be a connected area. Besides, Arctan wants the number of islands to be bombed to be as less as possible. Find all real numbers $\delta$ so that for any positive integer $n$ and the layout of the bridge, the method of bombing the islands is the only one.
[i]Proposed by chengbilly[/i]
2019 Latvia Baltic Way TST, 7
Two sequences $b_i$, $c_i$, $0 \le i \le 100$ contain positive integers, except $c_0=0$ and $b_{100}=0$.
Some towns in Graphland are connected with roads, and each road connects exactly two towns and is precisely $1$ km long. Towns, which are connected by a road or a sequence of roads, are called [i]neighbours[/i]. The length of the shortest path between two towns $X$ and $Y$ is denoted as [i]distance[/i]. It is known that the greatest [i]distance[/i] between two towns in Graphland is $100$ km. Also the following property holds for every pair $X$ and $Y$ of towns (not necessarily distinct): if the [i]distance[/i] between $X$ and $Y$ is exactly $k$ km, then $Y$ has exactly $b_k$ [i]neighbours[/i] that are at the [i]distance[/i] $k+1$ from $X$, and exactly $c_k$ [i]neighbours[/i] that are at the [i]distance[/i] $k-1$ from $X$.
Prove that $$\frac{b_0b_1 \cdot \cdot \cdot b_{99}}{c_1c_2 \cdot \cdot \cdot c_{100}}$$ is a positive integer.
1981 Brazil National Olympiad, 4
A graph has $100$ points. Given any four points, there is one joined to the other three. Show that one point must be joined to all $99$ other points. What is the smallest number possible of such points (that are joined to all the others)?
2016 IMAR Test, 3
Fix an integer $n \ge 2$, let $Q_n$ be the graph consisting of all vertices and all edges of an $n$-cube, and let $T$ be a spanning tree in $Q_n$. Show that $Q_n$ has an edge whose adjunction to $T$ produces a simple cycle of length at least $2n$.
1975 Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, 4
In the country of Sikinia there are finitely many cities. From each city, exactly three roads go out and each road goes to another Sikinian city. A tourist starts a trip from city $A$ and drives according to the following rule: he turns left at the first city, then right at the next city, and so on, alternately. Show that he will eventually return to $A.$
2015 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 3
The edges of a graph $G$ are coloured in two colours. Such that for each colour all the connected components of this graph formed by edges of this colour contains at most $n>1$ vertices. Prove there exists a proper colouring for the vertices of this graph with $n$ colours.
2024 Romania EGMO TST, P2
Given a graph with $99$ vertices and degrees in $\{81,82,\dots,90\}$, prove that there exist $10$ vertices of this graph with equal degrees and a common neighbour.
[i]Proposed by Alireza Alipour[/i]
2019 Tuymaada Olympiad, 5
Is it possible to draw in the plane the graph presented in the figure so that all the vertices are different points and all the edges are unit segments? (The segments can intersect at points different from vertices.)
1992 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 573
A graph has $17$ points and each point has $4$ edges. Show that there are two points which are not joined and which are not both joined to the same point.
2021 Durer Math Competition Finals, 6
Bertalan thought about a $4$-digit positive number. Then he draw a simple graph on $4$ vertices and wrote the digits of the number to the vertices of the graph in such a way that every vertex received exactly the degree of the vertex. In how many ways could he think about? In a simple graph every edge connects two different vertices, and between two vertices at most one edge can go.
2011 Indonesia TST, 2
A graph $G$ with $n$ vertex is called [i]good [/i] if every vertex could be labelled with distinct positive integers which are less than or equal $\lfloor \frac{n^2}{4} \rfloor$ such that there exists a set of nonnegative integers $D$ with the following property: there exists an edge between $2$ vertices if and only if the difference of their labels is in $D$.
Show that there exists a positive integer $N$ such that for every $n \ge N$, there exist a not-good graph with $n$ vertices.
2020 Durer Math Competition Finals, 5
Prove that the number of orientations of a connected $3$-regular graph on $2n$ vertices where the number of vertices with indegree $0$ and outdegree $0$ are equal, is exactly $2^{n+1}$ $ {2n} \choose {n}$.
1990 All Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiad, 525
A graph has $n$ points and $\frac{n(n-1)}{2}$ edges. Each edge is colored with one of $k$ colors so that there are no closed monochrome paths. What is the largest possible value of $n$ (given $k$)?
2023 Tuymaada Olympiad, 5
A graph contains $p$ vertices numbered from $1$ to $p$, and $q$ edges numbered from $p + 1$ to $p + q$. It turned out that for each edge the sum of the numbers of its ends and of the edge itself equals the same number $s$. It is also known that the numbers of edges starting in all vertices are equal. Prove that
\[s = \dfrac{1}{2} (4p+q+3).\]