Combinatorics
Source: Estonia IMO TST 1997 Day 1 P3
November 27, 2015
combinatorics
Problem Statement
There are boyfriend-girlfriend pairs at a party. Initially all the girls sit at a round table. For the first dance, each boy invites one of the girls to dance with.After each dance, a boy takes the girl he danced with to her seat, and for the next dance he invites the girl next to her in the counterclockwise direction. For which values of can the girls be selected in such a way that in every dance at least one boy danced with his girlfriend, assuming that there are no less than dances?