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red and blue vertices of a egular 2n-gon

Source: 2012 Romania JBMO TST 4.2, 10th Vojtech Jarnik Mathematical Competition, Ostrava, 2000

June 2, 2020
combinatorial geometrycombinatoricsColoring

Problem Statement

Let us choose arbitrarily nn vertices of a regular 2n2n-gon and color them red. The remaining vertices are colored blue. We arrange all red-red distances into a nondecreasing sequence and do the same with the blue-blue distances. Prove that the two sequences thus obtained are identical.