Problem

Source: Bangladesh National MO 2013

Tags: algebra



Higher Secondary P10 $X$ is a set of $n$ elements. $P_m(X)$ is the set of all $m$ element subsets (i.e. subsets that contain exactly $m$ elements) of $X$. Suppose $P_m(X)$ has $k$ elements. Prove that the elements of $P_m(X)$ can be ordered in a sequence $A_1, A_2,...A_i,...A_k$ such that it satisfies the two conditions: (A) each element of $P_m(X)$ occurs exactly once in the sequence, (B) for any $i$ such that $0<i<k$, the size of the set $A_i \cap A_{i+1}$ is $m-1$.