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Road Ministry - Iran NMO 2004 (Second Round) - Problem3

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September 24, 2010
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Problem Statement

The road ministry has assigned 8080 informal companies to repair 24002400 roads. These roads connect 100100 cities to each other. Each road is between 22 cities and there is at most 11 road between every 22 cities. We know that each company repairs 3030 roads that it has agencies in each 22 ends of them. Prove that there exists a city in which 88 companies have agencies.