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A family l of 2006 lines

Source: 5 th Silk Road Mathematical Competition(SRMC 2006)

April 18, 2006
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Problem Statement

A family LL of 2006 lines on the plane is given in such a way that it doesn't contain parallel lines and it doesn't contain three lines with a common point.We say that the line l1Ll_1\in L is bounding the line l2Ll_2\in L,if all intersection points of the line l2l_2 with other lines from LL lie on the one side of the line l1l_1. Prove that in the family LL there are two lines ll and ll' such that the following 2 conditions are satisfied simultaneously: 1) The line ll is bounding the line ll'; 2) the line ll' is not bounding the line ll.