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Colourable combo geo

Source: CMO 2022 P4

March 12, 2022
combinatorical geometrycombinatorics

Problem Statement

Call a set of nn lines good if no 33 lines are concurrent. These nn lines divide the Euclidean plane into regions (possible unbounded). A coloring is an assignment of two colors to each region, one from the set {A1,A2}\{A_1, A_2\} and the other from {B1,B2,B3}\{B_1, B_2, B_3\}, such that no two adjacent regions (adjacent meaning sharing an edge) have the same AiA_i color or the same BiB_i color, and there is a region colored Ai,BjA_i, B_j for any combination of Ai,BjA_i, B_j.
A number nn is colourable if there is a coloring for any set of nn good lines. Find all colourable nn.