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Visiting Belarus and Armenia

Source: Belarus TST 2024

July 17, 2024
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Problem Statement

There are kk cities in Belarus and kk cities in Armenia, between some cities there are non-directed flights. From any Belarusian city there are exactly nn flights to Armenian cities, and for every pair of Armenian cities exactly two Belarusian cities have flights to both of the Armenian cities. a) Prove that from every Armenian city there are exactly nn flights to Belarusian cities. b) Prove that there exists a flight route in which every city is visited at most once and that consists of at least (n+1)24\lfloor \frac{(n+1)^2}{4} \rfloor cities in both countries. D. Gorovoy