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Cono Sur Olympiad 2013, Problem 3

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August 22, 2014
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Problem Statement

Nocycleland is a country with 500500 cities and 20132013 two-way roads, each one of them connecting two cities. A city AA neighbors BB if there is one road that connects them, and a city AA quasi-neighbors BB if there is a city CC such that AA neighbors CC and CC neighbors BB. It is known that in Nocycleland, there are no pair of cities connected directly with more than one road, and there are no four cities AA, BB, CC and DD such that AA neighbors BB, BB neighbors CC, CC neighbors DD, and DD neighbors AA. Show that there is at least one city that quasi-neighbors at least 5757 other cities.