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Prime subsets of natural numbers

Source: Iran 3rd round 2012-Final exam-P8

September 26, 2012
number theory proposednumber theory

Problem Statement

a) Does there exist an infinite subset SS of the natural numbers, such that SNS\neq \mathbb{N}, and such that for each natural number n∉Sn\not \in S, exactly nn members of SS are coprime with nn?
b) Does there exist an infinite subset SS of the natural numbers, such that for each natural number nSn\in S, exactly nn members of SS are coprime with nn?
Proposed by Morteza Saghafian