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no of disjoint intervals of total length >= 1/2 in [0,1]

Source: 1986 Swedish Mathematical Competition p6

March 28, 2021
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Problem Statement

The interval [0,1][0,1] is covered by a finite number of intervals. Show that one can choose a number of these intervals which are pairwise disjoint and have the total length at least 1/21/2.