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triangle with colorued vertices on 101-gon

Source: 2014 China TST 3 Day 1 Q2

April 5, 2014
combinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

Let A1A2...A101A_1A_2...A_{101} be a regular 101101-gon, and colour every vertex red or blue. Let NN be the number of obtuse triangles satisfying the following: The three vertices of the triangle must be vertices of the 101101-gon, both the vertices with acute angles have the same colour, and the vertex with obtuse angle have different colour. (1)(1) Find the largest possible value of NN. (2)(2) Find the number of ways to colour the vertices such that maximum NN is acheived. (Two colourings a different if for some AiA_i the colours are different on the two colouring schemes).