Problem

Source: Iranian 3rd round Combinatorics exam P2 - 2014

Tags: combinatorics proposed, combinatorics



In a tennis tournament there are participants from $n$ different countries. Each team consists of a coach and a player whom should settle in a hotel. The rooms considered for the settlement of coaches are different from players' ones. Each player wants to be in a room whose roommates are all from countries which have a defense agreement with the player's country. Conversely, each coach wants to be in a room whose roommates are all from countries which don't have a defense agreement with the coach's country. Find the minimum number of the rooms such that we can always grant everyone's desire. proposed by Seyed Reza Hosseini and Mohammad Amin Ghiasi