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2019 Dutch IMO TST, 4

There are $300$ participants to a mathematics competition. After the competition some of the contestants play some games of chess. Each two contestants play at most one game against each other. There are no three contestants, such that each of them plays against each other. Determine the maximum value of $n$ for which it is possible to satisfy the following conditions at the same time: each contestant plays at most $n$ games of chess, and for each $m$ with $1 \le m \le n$, there is a contestant playing exactly $m$ games of chess.

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.

2015 Brazil Team Selection Test, 1

Starting at a vertex $x_0$, we walk over the edges of a connected graph $G$ according to the following rules: 1. We never walk the same edge twice in the same direction. 2. Once we reach a vertex $x \ne x_0$, never visited before, we mark the edge by which we come to $x$. We can use this marked edge to leave vertex $x$ only if we already have traversed, in both directions, all other edges incident to $x$. Show that, regardless of the path followed, we will always be stuck at $x_0$ and that all other edges will have been traveled in both directions.

2002 All-Russian Olympiad, 4

There are 2002 towns in a kingdom. Some of the towns are connected by roads in such a manner that, if all roads from one city closed, one can still travel between any two cities. Every year, the kingdom chooses a non-self-intersecting cycle of roads, founds a new town, connects it by roads with each city from the chosen cycle, and closes all the roads from the original cycle. After several years, no non-self-intersecting cycles remained. Prove that at that moment there are at least 2002 towns, exactly one road going out from each of them.

2021 Romanian Master of Mathematics Shortlist, C1

Determine the largest integer $n\geq 3$ for which the edges of the complete graph on $n$ vertices can be assigned pairwise distinct non-negative integers such that the edges of every triangle have numbers which form an arithmetic progression.

2016 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 6

A graph is called $7-chip$ if it obtained by removing at most three edges that have no vertex in common from a complete graph with seven vertices. Consider a complete graph $G$ with $v$ vertices which each edge of its is colored blue or red. Prove that there is either a blue path with $100$ edges or a red $7-chip$.

Kvant 2024, M2780

Consider a natural number $n\geqslant 3$ and a graph $G{}$ with a chromatic number $\chi(G)=n$ which has more than $n{}$ vertices. Prove that there exist two vertex-disjoint subgraphs $G_1{}$ and $G_2{}$ of $G{}$ such that $\chi(G_1)+\chi(G_2)\geqslant n+1.$ [i]Proposed by V. Dolnikov[/i]

1997 South africa National Olympiad, 6

Six points are connected in pairs by lines, each of which is either red or blue. Every pair of points is joined. Determine whether there must be a closed path having four sides all of the same colour. (A path is closed if it begins and ends at the same point.)

2004 Miklós Schweitzer, 2

Tags: graph theory
Write $t(G)$ for the number of complete quadrilaterals in the graph $G$ and $e_G(S)$ for the number of edges spanned by a subset $S$ of vertices of $G$. Let $G_1, G_2$ be two (simple) graphs on a common underlying set $V$ of vertices, $|V|-n$, and assume that $|e_{G_1}(S)-e_{G_2}(S)|<\frac{n^2}{1000}$ holds for any subset $S\subseteq V$. Prove that $|t(G_1)-t(G_2)|\le \frac{n^4}{1000}$.

2009 All-Russian Olympiad, 6

Given a finite tree $ T$ and isomorphism $ f: T\rightarrow T$. Prove that either there exist a vertex $ a$ such that $ f(a)\equal{}a$ or there exist two neighbor vertices $ a$, $ b$ such that $ f(a)\equal{}b$, $ f(b)\equal{}a$.

1996 South africa National Olympiad, 4

In the Rainbow Nation there are two airways: Red Rockets and Blue Boeings. For any two cities in the Rainbow Nation it is possible to travel from the one to the other using either or both of the airways. It is known, however, that it is impossible to travel from Beanville to Mieliestad using only Red Rockets - not directly nor by travelling via other cities. Show that, using only Blue Boeings, one can travel from any city to any other city by stopping at at most one city along the way.

2022 Iran Team Selection Test, 9

consider $n\geq 6$ points $x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n$ on the plane such that no three of them are colinear. We call graph with vertices $x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n$ a "road network" if it is connected, each edge is a line segment, and no two edges intersect each other at points other than the vertices. Prove that there are three road networks $G_1,G_2,G_3$ such that $G_i$ and $G_j$ don't have a common edge for $1\leq i,j\leq 3$. Proposed by Morteza Saghafian

2019 IMO, 3

A social network has $2019$ users, some pairs of whom are friends. Whenever user $A$ is friends with user $B$, user $B$ is also friends with user $A$. Events of the following kind may happen repeatedly, one at a time: [list] [*] Three users $A$, $B$, and $C$ such that $A$ is friends with both $B$ and $C$, but $B$ and $C$ are not friends, change their friendship statuses such that $B$ and $C$ are now friends, but $A$ is no longer friends with $B$, and no longer friends with $C$. All other friendship statuses are unchanged. [/list] Initially, $1010$ users have $1009$ friends each, and $1009$ users have $1010$ friends each. Prove that there exists a sequence of such events after which each user is friends with at most one other user. [i]Proposed by Adrian Beker, Croatia[/i]

2010 Poland - Second Round, 3

The $n$-element set of real numbers is given, where $n \geq 6$. Prove that there exist at least $n-1$ two-element subsets of this set, in which the arithmetic mean of elements is not less than the arithmetic mean of elements in the whole set.

2022 Bulgarian Spring Math Competition, Problem 9.4

14 students attend the IMO training camp. Every student has at least $k$ favourite numbers. The organisers want to give each student a shirt with one of the student's favourite numbers on the back. Determine the least $k$, such that this is always possible if: $a)$ The students can be arranged in a circle such that every two students sitting next to one another have different numbers. $b)$ $7$ of the students are boys, the rest are girls, and there isn't a boy and a girl with the same number.

KoMaL A Problems 2018/2019, A. 737

$100$ points are given in space such that no four of them lie in the same plane. Consider those convex polyhedra with five vertices that have all vertices from the given set. Prove that the number of such polyhedra is even.

2000 Belarus Team Selection Test, 7.3

A game is played by $n$ girls ($n \geq 2$), everybody having a ball. Each of the $\binom{n}{2}$ pairs of players, is an arbitrary order, exchange the balls they have at the moment. The game is called nice [b]nice[/b] if at the end nobody has her own ball and it is called [b]tiresome[/b] if at the end everybody has her initial ball. Determine the values of $n$ for which there exists a nice game and those for which there exists a tiresome game.

2008 All-Russian Olympiad, 2

The columns of an $ n\times n$ board are labeled $ 1$ to $ n$. The numbers $ 1,2,...,n$ are arranged in the board so that the numbers in each row and column are pairwise different. We call a cell "good" if the number in it is greater than the label of its column. For which $ n$ is there an arrangement in which each row contains equally many good cells?

2015 Korea - Final Round, 3

There are at least $3$ subway stations in a city. In this city, there exists a route that passes through more than $L$ subway stations, without revisiting. Subways run both ways, which means that if you can go from subway station A to B, you can also go from B to A. Prove that at least one of the two holds. $\text{(i)}$. There exists three subway stations $A$, $B$, $C$ such that there does not exist a route from $A$ to $B$ which doesn't pass through $C$. $\text{(ii)}$. There is a cycle passing through at least $\lfloor \sqrt{2L} \rfloor$ stations, without revisiting a same station more than once.

2005 IMO, 6

In a mathematical competition, in which $6$ problems were posed to the participants, every two of these problems were solved by more than $\frac 25$ of the contestants. Moreover, no contestant solved all the $6$ problems. Show that there are at least $2$ contestants who solved exactly $5$ problems each. [i]Radu Gologan and Dan Schwartz[/i]

2017 CHMMC (Fall), 6

Tags: graph theory
The country of Claredena has $5$ cities, and is planning to build a road system so that each of its cities has exactly one outgoing (unidirectional) road to another city. Two road systems are considered equivalent if we can get from one road system the other by just changing the names of the cities. That is, two road systems are considered the same if given a relabeling of the cities, if in the first configuration a road went from city $C$ to city $D$, then in the second configuration there is road that goes from the city now labeled $C$ to the city now labeled $D$. How many distinct, nonequivalent possibilities are there for the road system Claredena builds?

2003 China Team Selection Test, 3

Given $S$ be the finite lattice (with integer coordinate) set in the $xy$-plane. $A$ is the subset of $S$ with most elements such that the line connecting any two points in $A$ is not parallel to $x$-axis or $y$-axis. $B$ is the subset of integer with least elements such that for any $(x,y)\in S$, $x \in B$ or $y \in B$ holds. Prove that $|A| \geq |B|$.

2022 Taiwan TST Round 1, 6

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]

2017 China Northern MO, 4

Let \(Q\) be a set of permutations of \(1,2,...,100\) such that for all \(1\leq a,b \leq 100\), \(a\) can be found to the left of \(b\) and adjacent to \(b\) in at most one permutation in \(Q\). Find the largest possible number of elements in \(Q\).

2001 Saint Petersburg Mathematical Olympiad, 10.7

On the parliament of Sikinia, for any two deputies, there is third deputy, which knows exactly one of the two. Every deputy belongs to one of the two ruling parties. Every day, he president tells a certain group of deputies to change the party that they belong, and all the deputies which which know at least one of the deputies of the group has to change their party too. Prove that, the president can reach any configuration of deputies between two parties.(The president himself isn't a member of the parliament of Sikinia). [I]Proposed by S. Berlov[/i]