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
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Source: Iranian 3rd round Combinatorics exam P2 - 2014
Tags: combinatorics proposed, combinatorics
26.09.2014 00:58
This question is proposed by Seyed Reza Hosseini and Mohammad Amin Ghiasi !!
29.09.2014 09:07
I am not used to write combi solutions. So the following solution might be ugly and complicated.
11.11.2014 13:51
Maybe I'm missing something,but the problem seems too easy.Induct on $n$,we will prove that we need at most $n+1$ rooms.Example that it can't be n is easy,just let all contryes be friendly,then all coaches must be in different rooms,so we need $n+1$ rooms in that case.Now,base case $n=1$ is trivial.Now,from $n+1$ country pick any $n$ contryes and to the inductive hypothesis.Now,if we have less than $n+1$ rooms,than just add $2$ rooms.If not,then let players be in $k$ rooms and the coaches in $n+1-k$ rooms.Now,suppose opposite,that we can't place a player in to any room and that we can't place a coach in to any room.Now,from every room where are the players it will exist a player who is enemy with the picked player,so our country will have at least $k$ enemyes.Similary,our country will have at least $n+1-k$ friends,but this is impossible,so we are finished.
17.11.2014 09:16
Basically, the same problem as here http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=569077&,with a solution identical to the above.