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max number of students beating than most of their friends

Source: proposed by teacher

January 22, 2014
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Problem Statement

There are 3030 students in a class. In an examination, their results were all different from each other. It is given that everyone has the same number of friends. Find the maximum number of students such that each one of them has a better result than the majority of his friends. PS. Here majority means larger than half.