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Help the band with their instruments

Source: 239 2019 J8

July 31, 2020
combinatorics

Problem Statement

There are nn instruments in the laboratory, each two of them can be connected with a wire. Moreover, if four devices A,B,C,DA, B, C, D, are such that wires of ABAB, BCBC and CDCD are connected but there is no connected pair between CACA, ADAD and DBDB, a collapse occurs. A professor invented a wiring diagram that does not collapse. Coming to the laboratory, he found that the collapse has not yet occurred, but the devices are connected not according to his scheme. Prove that he can implement his scheme, each time connecting or disconnecting a pair of devices, so that the collapse won’t happen anytime.