Problem

Source: 2024 Korea winter program practice test P6

Tags: combinatorics



For a given positive integer $n$, there are a total of $5n$ balls labeled with numbers $1$, $2$, $3$, $\cdots$, $n$, with 5 balls for each number. The balls are put into $n$ boxes, with $5$ balls in each box. Show that you can color two balls red and one ball blue in each box so that the sum of the numbers on the red balls is twice the sum of the numbers on the blue balls.