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Funny group of students

Source: Southern Summer School, gr. 12

July 9, 2017
combinatoricsgraph theory

Problem Statement

In a summer school, there are n>4n>4 students. It is known that, among these students, i. If two ones are friends, then they don't have any common friends. ii If two ones are not friends, then they have exactly two common friends. 1. Prove that 8nāˆ’78n-7 must be a perfect square. 2. Determine the smallest possible value of nn.