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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.)

2002 Austrian-Polish Competition, 9

A set $P$ of $2002$ persons is given. The family of subsets of $P$ containing exactly $1001$ persons has the property that the number of acquaintance pairs in each such subset is the same. (It is assumed that the acquaintance relation is symmetric). Find the best lower estimation of the acquaintance pairs in the set $P$.

2013 All-Russian Olympiad, 1

$2n$ real numbers with a positive sum are aligned in a circle. For each of the numbers, we can see there are two sets of $n$ numbers such that this number is on the end. Prove that at least one of the numbers has a positive sum for both of these two sets.

2022 Germany Team Selection Test, 2

The kingdom of Anisotropy consists of $n$ cities. For every two cities there exists exactly one direct one-way road between them. We say that a [i]path from $X$ to $Y$[/i] is a sequence of roads such that one can move from $X$ to $Y$ along this sequence without returning to an already visited city. A collection of paths is called [i]diverse[/i] if no road belongs to two or more paths in the collection. Let $A$ and $B$ be two distinct cities in Anisotropy. Let $N_{AB}$ denote the maximal number of paths in a diverse collection of paths from $A$ to $B$. Similarly, let $N_{BA}$ denote the maximal number of paths in a diverse collection of paths from $B$ to $A$. Prove that the equality $N_{AB} = N_{BA}$ holds if and only if the number of roads going out from $A$ is the same as the number of roads going out from $B$. [i]Proposed by Warut Suksompong, Thailand[/i]

2016 Turkey EGMO TST, 2

In a simple graph, there are two disjoint set of vertices $A$ and $B$ where $A$ has $k$ and $B$ has $2016$ vertices. Four numbers are written to each vertex using the colors red, green, blue and black. There is no any edge at the beginning. For each vertex in $A$, we first choose a color and then draw all edges from this vertex to the vertices in $B$ having a larger number with the chosen color. It is known that for each vertex in $B$, the set of vertices in $A$ connected to this vertex are different. Find the minimal possible value of $k$.

2008 Saint Petersburg Mathematical Olympiad, 7

There are $10000$ cities in country, and roads between some cities. Every city has $<100$ roads. Every cycle route with odd number of road consists of $\geq 101 $ roads. Prove that we can divide all cities in $100$ groups with $100$ cities, such that every road leads from one group to other.

2020 China Second Round Olympiad, 4

Given a convex polygon with 20 vertexes, there are many ways of traingulation it (as 18 triangles). We call the diagram of triangulation, meaning the 20 vertexes, with 37 edges(17 triangluation edges and the original 20 edges), a T-diagram. And the subset of this T-diagram with 10 edges which covers all 20 vertexes(meaning any two edges in the subset doesn't cover the same vertex) calls a "perfect matching" of this T-diagram. Among all the T-diagrams, find the maximum number of "perfect matching" of a T-diagram.

2022 Saint Petersburg Mathematical Olympiad, 7

Given is a graph $G$ of $n+1$ vertices, which is constructed as follows: initially there is only one vertex $v$, and one a move we can add a vertex and connect it to exactly one among the previous vertices. The vertices have non-negative real weights such that $v$ has weight $0$ and each other vertex has a weight not exceeding the avarage weight of its neighbors, increased by $1$. Prove that no weight can exceed $n^2$.

2020-2021 Winter SDPC, #8

The Queen of Hearts rules a kingdom with $n$ (distinguishable) cities. Each pair of cities is either connected with a bridge or not connected with a bridge. Each day, the Queen of Hearts visits $2021$ cities. For every pair of cities, if she sees a bridge she gets angry and destroys it; otherwise she feels nice and constructs a bridge between them. We call two configurations of bridges [i]equivalent[/i] if one can be reached from the other after a finite number of days. Show that there is some integer $M$ such that if $n>M$, two configurations are equivalent if both of the following conditions hold: [list] [*] The parity of the total number of bridges is the same in both configurations [*] For every city, the parity of the number of bridges going out of that city is the same in both configurations. [/list]

2013 Singapore MO Open, 4

Let $F$ be a finite non-empty set of integers and let $n$ be a positive integer. Suppose that $\bullet$ Any $x \in F$ may be written as $x=y+z$ for some $y$, $z \in F$; $\bullet$ If $1 \leq k \leq n$ and $x_1$, ..., $x_k \in F$, then $x_1+\cdots+x_k \neq 0$. Show that $F$ has at least $2n+2$ elements.

Russian TST 2016, P3

A simple graph has $N{}$ vertices and less than $3(N-1)/2$ edges. Prove that its vertices can be divided into two non-empty groups so that each vertex has at most one neighbor in the group it doesn't belong to.

2005 Alexandru Myller, 4

Prove that there exists an undirected graph having $ 2004 $ vertices such that for any $ \in\{ 1,2,\ldots ,1002 \} , $ there exists at least two vertices whose orders are $ n. $

2008 Germany Team Selection Test, 2

[b](i)[/b] Determine the smallest number of edges which a graph of $ n$ nodes may have given that adding an arbitrary new edge would give rise to a 3-clique (3 nodes joined pairwise by edges). [b](ii)[/b] Determine the smallest number of edges which a graph of $ n$ nodes may have given that adding an arbitrary new edge would give rise to a 4-clique (4 nodes joined pairwise by edges).

1986 IMO, 3

Given a finite set of points in the plane, each with integer coordinates, is it always possible to color the points red or white so that for any straight line $L$ parallel to one of the coordinate axes the difference (in absolute value) between the numbers of white and red points on $L$ is not greater than $1$?

2010 ELMO Shortlist, 7

The game of circulate is played with a deck of $kn$ cards each with a number in $1,2,\ldots,n$ such that there are $k$ cards with each number. First, $n$ piles numbered $1,2,\ldots,n$ of $k$ cards each are dealt out face down. The player then flips over a card from pile $1$, places that card face up at the bottom of the pile, then next flips over a card from the pile whose number matches the number on the card just flipped. The player repeats this until he reaches a pile in which every card has already been flipped and wins if at that point every card has been flipped. Hamster has grown tired of losing every time, so he decides to cheat. He looks at the piles beforehand and rearranges the $k$ cards in each pile as he pleases. When can Hamster perform this procedure such that he will win the game? [i]Brian Hamrick.[/i]

1990 IMO, 2

Let $ n \geq 3$ and consider a set $ E$ of $ 2n \minus{} 1$ distinct points on a circle. Suppose that exactly $ k$ of these points are to be colored black. Such a coloring is [b]good[/b] if there is at least one pair of black points such that the interior of one of the arcs between them contains exactly $ n$ points from $ E$. Find the smallest value of $ k$ so that every such coloring of $ k$ points of $ E$ is good.

2007 Bulgarian Autumn Math Competition, Problem 11.4

There are 1000 towns $A_{1},A_{2},\ldots ,A_{1000}$ with airports in a country and some of them are connected via flights. It's known that the $i$-th town is connected with $d_{i}$ other towns where $d_{1}\leq d_{2}\leq \ldots \leq d_{1000}$ and $d_{j}\geq j+1$ for every $j=1,2,\ldots 999-d_{999}$. Prove that if the airport of any town $A_{k}$ is closed, then we'd still be able to get from any town $A_{i}$ to any $A_{j}$ for $i,j\neq k$ (possibly by more than one flight).

2022 Belarus - Iran Friendly Competition, 5

Republic has $n \geq 2$ cities, between some pairs of cities there are non-directed flight routes. From each city it is possible to get to any other city, and we will call the minimal number of flights required to do that the [i]distance[/i] between the cities. For every city consider the biggest distance to another city. It turned out that for every city this number is equal to $m$. Find all values $m$ can attain for given $n$

2008 Romania Team Selection Test, 4

Let $ n$ be a nonzero positive integer. A set of persons is called a $ n$-balanced set if in any subset of $ 3$ persons there exists at least two which know each other and in each subset of $ n$ persons there are two which don't know each other. Prove that a $ n$-balanced set has at most $ (n \minus{} 1)(n \plus{} 2)/2$ persons.

1989 IMO Longlists, 89

155 birds $ P_1, \ldots, P_{155}$ are sitting down on the boundary of a circle $ C.$ Two birds $ P_i, P_j$ are mutually visible if the angle at centre $ m(\cdot)$ of their positions $ m(P_iP_j) \leq 10^{\circ}.$ Find the smallest number of mutually visible pairs of birds, i.e. minimal set of pairs $ \{x,y\}$ of mutually visible pairs of birds with $ x,y \in \{P_1, \ldots, P_{155}\}.$ One assumes that a position (point) on $ C$ can be occupied simultaneously by several birds, e.g. all possible birds.

2000 Poland - Second Round, 3

On fields of $n \times n$ chessboard $n^2$ different integers have been arranged, one in each field. In each column, field with biggest number was colored in red. Set of $n$ fields of chessboard name [i]admissible[/i], if no two of that fields aren't in the same row and aren't in the same column. From all admissible sets, set with biggest sum of numbers in it's fields has been chosen. Prove that red field is in this set.

2023 OMpD, 3

Let $m$ and $n$ be positive integers integers such that $2m + 1 < n$, and let $S$ be the set of the $2^n$ subsets of $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$. Prove that we can place the elements of $S$ on a circle, so that for any two adjacent elements $A$ and $B$, the set $A \Delta B$ has exactly $2m + 1$ elements. [b]Note[/b]: $A \Delta B = (A \cup B) - (A \cap B)$ is the set of elements that are exclusively in $A$ or exclusively in $B$.

Russian TST 2018, P2

There are $2^n$ airports, numbered with binary strings of length $n{}$. Any two stations whose numbers differ in exactly one digit are connected by a flight that has a price (which is the same in both directions). The sum of the prices of all $n{}$ flights leaving any station does not exceed 1. Prove that one can travel between any two airports by paying no more than 1.

2023 Turkey Team Selection Test, 2

There is a school with $n$ students. Suppose that every student has exactly $2023$ friends and every couple of student that are not friends has exactly $2022$ friends in common. Then find all values of $n$

2013 Balkan MO, 4

In a mathematical competition, some competitors are friends; friendship is mutual, that is, when $A$ is a friend of $B$, then $B$ is also a friend of $A$. We say that $n \geq 3$ different competitors $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n$ form a [i]weakly-friendly cycle [/i]if $A_i$ is not a friend of $A_{i+1}$ for $1 \leq i \leq n$ (where $A_{n+1} = A_1$), and there are no other pairs of non-friends among the components of the cycle. The following property is satisfied: "for every competitor $C$ and every weakly-friendly cycle $\mathcal{S}$ of competitors not including $C$, the set of competitors $D$ in $\mathcal{S}$ which are not friends of $C$ has at most one element" Prove that all competitors of this mathematical competition can be arranged into three rooms, such that every two competitors in the same room are friends. ([i]Serbia[/i])