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When Pablo turns

15

, he throws a party inviting

43

friends. He presents them with a cake n the form of a regular

15

-sided polygon and on it

15

candles. The candles are arranged so that between candles and vertices there are never three aligned (any three candles are not aligned, nor are any two candles with a vertex of the polygon, nor are any two vertices of the polygon with a candle). Then Pablo divides the cake into triangular pieces, by means of cuts that join candles to each other or candles and vertices, but also do not intersect with others already made. Why, by doing this, Paul was able to distribute a piece to each of his guests but he was left without eating?

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