Problem

Source: Junior Olympiad of Malaysia Shortlist 2015 C6

Tags: combinatorics



In a massive school which has $m$ students, and each student took at least one subject. Let $p$ be an odd prime. Given that: (i) each student took at most $p+1$ subjects. (ii) each subject is taken by at most $p$ students. (iii) any pair of students has at least $1$ subject in common. Find the maximum possible value of $m$.