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1999 ITAMO
5
5
Part of
1999 ITAMO
Problems
(1)
rectangular grid , village of pile-built dwellings on a lake
Source: ITAMO 1999 p5
1/25/2020
There is a village of pile-built dwellings on a lake, set on the gridpoints of an
m
×
n
m \times n
m
×
n
rectangular grid. Each dwelling is connected by exactly
p
p
p
bridges to some of the neighboring dwellings (diagonal connections are not allowed, two dwellings can be connected by more than one bridge). Determine for which values
m
,
n
,
p
m,n, p
m
,
n
,
p
it is possible to place the bridges so that from any dwelling one can reach any other dwelling.
combinatorics
grid