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No matter what you do, there will always be friends in different rooms

Source: 2021 Junior Macedonian Mathematical Olympiad P1

June 8, 2021
graph theorycombinatorics

Problem Statement

At this year's Olympiad, some of the students are friends (friendship is symmetric), however there are also students which are not friends. No matter how the students are partitioned in two contest halls, there are always two friends in different halls. Let AA be a fixed student. Show that there exist students BB and CC such that there are exactly two friendships in the group {A,B,C}\{ A,B,C \}.
Proposed by Mirko Petrushevski