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Graph problem, not so easy

Source: Argentina IMO 2005 TST, problem 6

April 23, 2005
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Problem Statement

We say that a group of kk boys is nacceptablen-acceptable if removing any boy from the group one can always find, in the other k1k-1 group, a group of nn boys such that everyone knows each other. For each nn, find the biggest kk such that in any group of kk boys that is nacceptablen-acceptable we must always have a group of n+1n+1 boys such that everyone knows each other.