CIIM 2013 Problem 3
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August 9, 2016
CIIMCIIM 2013undergraduate
Problem Statement
Given a set of boys and girls, we call a pair amicable if and are friends. The friendship relation is symmetric. A set of people is affectionate if it satisfy the following conditions:i) The set has the same number of boys and girls.ii) For every four different people if the pairs and are all amicable, then at least one of the pairs and is also amicable.
iii) At least of all boy-girl pairs are amicable.Let be a positive integer. Prove that there exists an integer such that if a affectionate set has al least people, then there exists boys that are pairwise friends or girls that are pairwise friends.