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Buildings in a city - Iran NMO 2007 - Problem3

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September 22, 2010
analytic geometrycombinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

In a city, there are some buildings. We say the building AA is dominant to the building BB if the line that connects upside of AA to upside of BB makes an angle more than 45∘45^{\circ} with earth. We want to make a building in a given location. Suppose none of the buildings are dominant to each other. Prove that we can make the building with a height such that again, none of the buildings are dominant to each other. (Suppose the city as a horizontal plain and each building as a perpendicular line to the plain.)