Found problems: 801
2010 239 Open Mathematical Olympiad, 8
Consider the graph $G$ with $100$ vertices, and the minimum odd cycle goes through $13$ vertices. Prove that the vertices of the graph can be colored in $6$ colors in a way that no two adjacent vertices have the same color.
2022 Turkey Team Selection Test, 9
In every acyclic graph with 2022 vertices we can choose $k$ of the vertices such that every chosen vertex has at most 2 edges to chosen vertices. Find the maximum possible value of $k$.
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]
2022 Bolivia IMO TST, P4
Let $S$ be an infinite set of positive integers, such that there exist four pairwise distinct $a,b,c,d \in S$ with $\gcd(a,b) \neq \gcd(c,d)$. Prove that there exist three pairwise distinct $x,y,z \in S$ such that $\gcd(x,y)=\gcd(y,z) \neq \gcd(z,x)$.
2021 Francophone Mathematical Olympiad, 2
Evariste has drawn twelve triangles as follows, so that two consecutive triangles share exactly one edge.
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Sophie colors every triangle side in red, green or blue. Among the $3^{24}$ possible colorings, how many have the property that every triangle has one edge of each color?
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.
2020 Tuymaada Olympiad, 3
Each edge of a complete graph with $101$ vertices is marked with $1$ or $-1$. It is known that absolute value of the sum of numbers on all the edges is less than $150$. Prove that the graph contains a path visiting each vertex exactly once such that the sum of numbers on all edges of this path is zero.
[i](Y. Caro, A. Hansberg, J. Lauri, C. Zarb)[/i]
2022 IFYM, Sozopol, 7
A graph $ G$ with $ n$ vertices is given. Some $ x$ of its edges are colored red so that each triangle has at most one red edge. The maximum number of vertices in $ G$ that induce a bipartite graph equals $ y.$ Prove that $ n\ge 4x/y.$
2006 Germany Team Selection Test, 1
Let $n\geq 3$ be a fixed integer. Each side and each diagonal of a regular $n$-gon is labelled with a number from the set $\left\{1;\;2;\;...;\;r\right\}$ in a way such that the following two conditions are fulfilled:
[b]1.[/b] Each number from the set $\left\{1;\;2;\;...;\;r\right\}$ occurs at least once as a label.
[b]2.[/b] In each triangle formed by three vertices of the $n$-gon, two of the sides are labelled with the same number, and this number is greater than the label of the third side.
[b](a)[/b] Find the maximal $r$ for which such a labelling is possible.
[b](b)[/b] [i]Harder version (IMO Shortlist 2005):[/i] For this maximal value of $r$, how many such labellings are there?
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[i]Easier version (5th German TST 2006):[/i] Show that, for this maximal value of $r$, there are exactly $\frac{n!\left(n-1\right)!}{2^{n-1}}$ possible labellings.[/hide]
[i]Proposed by Federico Ardila, Colombia[/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.)
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.
2016 Poland - Second Round, 6
$n$ ($n \ge 4$) green points are in a data space and no $4$ green points lie on one plane. Some segments which connect green points have been colored red. Number of red segments is even. Each two green points are connected with polyline which is build from red segments. Show that red segments can be split on pairs, such that segments from one pair have common end.
2022 Korea Winter Program Practice Test, 3
Let $n\ge 2$ be a positive integer. $S$ is a set of $2n$ airports. For two arbitrary airports $A,B$, if there is an airway from $A$ to $B$, then there is an airway from $B$ to $A$. Suppose that $S$ has only one independent set of $n$ airports. Let the independent set $X$. Prove that there exists an airport $P\in S\setminus X$ which satisfies following condition.
[b]Condition[/b] : For two arbitrary distinct airports $A,B\in S\setminus \{P\}$, if there exists a path connecting $A$ and $B$, then there exists a path connecting $A$ and $B$ which does not pass $P$.
2019 Turkey Team SeIection Test, 6
$k$ is a positive integer,
$R_{n}={-k, -(k-1),..., -1, 1,..., k-1, k}$ for $n=2k$
$R_{n}={-k, -(k-1),..., -1, 0, 1,..., k-1, k}$ for $n=2k+1$.
A mechanism consists of some marbles and white/red ropes that connects some marble pairs. If each one of the marbles are written on some numbers from $R_{n}$ with the property that any two connected marbles have different numbers on them, we call it [i]nice labeling[/i]. If each one of the marbles are written on some numbers from $R_{n}$ with the properties that any two connected marbles with a white rope have different numbers on them and any two connected marbles with a red rope have two numbers with sum not equal to $0$, we call it [i]precise labeling[/i].
$n\geq{3}$, if every mechanism that is labeled [i]nicely[/i] with $R_{n}$, could be labeled [i]precisely[/i] with $R_{m}$, what is the minimal value of $m$?
2018 Brazil Undergrad MO, 7
Unless of isomorphisms, how many simple four-vertex graphs are there?
2019 Polish MO Finals, 3
$n\ge 3$ guests met at a party. Some of them know each other but there is no quartet of different guests $a, b, c, d$ such that in pairs $\lbrace a, b \rbrace, \lbrace b, c \rbrace, \lbrace c, d \rbrace, \lbrace d, a \rbrace$ guests know each other but in pairs $\lbrace a, c \rbrace, \lbrace b, d \rbrace$ guests don't know each other. We say a nonempty set of guests $X$ is an [i]ingroup[/i], when guests from $X$ know each other pairwise and there are no guests not from $X$ knowing all guests from $X$. Prove that there are at most $\frac{n(n-1)}{2}$ different ingroups at that party.
2004 Miklós Schweitzer, 3
Prove that there is a constant $c>0$ such that for any $n>3$ there exists a planar graph $G$ with $n$ vertices such that every straight-edged plane embedding of $G$ has a pair of edges with ratio of lengths at least $cn$.
2023 All-Russian Olympiad, 4
There is a queue of $n{}$ girls on one side of a tennis table, and a queue of $n{}$ boys on the other side. Both the girls and the boys are numbered from $1{}$ to $n{}$ in the order they stand. The first game is played by the girl and the boy with the number $1{}$ and then, after each game, the loser goes to the end of their queue, and the winner remains at the table. After a while, it turned out that each girl played exactly one game with each boy. Prove that if $n{}$ is odd, then a girl and a boy with odd numbers played in the last game.
[i]Proposed by A. Gribalko[/i]
2019 IMEO, 2
Consider some graph $G$ with $2019$ nodes. Let's define [i]inverting[/i] a vertex $v$ the following process: for every other vertex $u$, if there was an edge between $v$ and $u$, it is deleted, and if there wasn't, it is added. We want to minimize the number of edges in the graph by several [i]invertings[/i] (we are allowed to invert the same vertex several times). Find the smallest number $M$ such that we can always make the number of edges in the graph not larger than $M$, for any initial choice of $G$.
[i]Proposed by Arsenii Nikolaev, Anton Trygub (Ukraine)[/i]
Russian TST 2019, P1
A school organizes optional lectures for 200 students. At least 10 students have signed up for each proposed lecture, and for any two students there is at most one lecture that both of them have signed up for. Prove that it is possible to hold all these lectures over 211 days so that no one has to attend two lectures in one day.
2008 Romania Team Selection Test, 1
Let $ n$ be a nonzero positive integer. Find $ n$ such that there exists a permutation $ \sigma \in S_{n}$ such that
\[ \left| \{ |\sigma(k) \minus{} k| \ : \ k \in \overline{1, n} \}\right | = n.\]
1983 IMO Longlists, 1
The localities $P_1, P_2, \dots, P_{1983}$ are served by ten international airlines $A_1,A_2, \dots , A_{10}$. It is noticed that there is direct service (without stops) between any two of these localities and that all airline schedules offer round-trip flights. Prove that at least one of the airlines can offer a round trip with an odd number of landings.
2011 All-Russian Olympiad, 3
The graph $G$ is not $3$-coloured. Prove that $G$ can be divided into two graphs $M$ and $N$ such that $M$ is not $2$-coloured and $N$ is not $1$-coloured.
[i]V. Dolnikov[/i]
2014 Korea - Final Round, 6
In an island there are $n$ castles, and each castle is in country $A$ or $B$. There is one commander per castle, and each commander belongs to the same country as the castle he's initially in. There are some (two-way) roads between castles (there may be roads between castles of different countries), and call two castles adjacent if there is a road between them.
Prove that the following two statements are equivalent:
(1) If some commanders from country $B$ move to attack an adjacent castle in country $A$, some commanders from country $A$ could appropriately move in defense to adjacent castles in country $A$ so that in every castle of country $A$, the number of country $A$'s commanders defending that castle is not less than the number of country $B$'s commanders attacking that castle. (Each commander can defend or attack only one castle at a time.)
(2) For any arbitrary set $X$ of castles in country $A$, the number of country $A$'s castles that are in $X$ or adjacent to at least one of the castle in $X$ is not less than the number of country $B$'s castles that are adjacent to at least one of the castles in $X$.
Kvant 2019, M2557
Given any positive real number $\varepsilon$, prove that, for all but finitely many positive integers $v$, any graph on $v$ vertices with at least $(1+\varepsilon)v$ edges has two distinct simple cycles of equal lengths.
(Recall that the notion of a simple cycle does not allow repetition of vertices in a cycle.)
[i]Fedor Petrov, Russia[/i]