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Balkan TSTp3.3

Source: Azerbaijan Balkan TST 2016 no 3

October 20, 2016
combinatorics

Problem Statement

There are some checkers in nnn\cdot n size chess board.Known that for all numbers 1i,jn1\le i,j\le n if checkwork in the intersection of ii th row and jj th column is empty,so the number of checkers that are in this row and column is at least nn.Prove that there are at least n22\frac{n^2}{2} checkers in chess board.