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100*100 garden - Iran NMO 1999 (Second Round) Problem3

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October 4, 2010
combinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

We have a 100×100100\times100 garden and we’ve plant 1000010000 trees in the 1×11\times1 squares (exactly one in each.). Find the maximum number of trees that we can cut such that on the segment between each two cut trees, there exists at least one uncut tree.