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Friendly classmates

Source: Assara 2024 S8

October 14, 2024
combinatorics

Problem Statement

There are 1515 boys and 1515 girls in the class. The first girl is friends with 44 boys, the second with 55, the third with 66, . . . , the 1111th with 1414, and each of the other four girls is friends with all the boys. It turned out that there are exactly 3ā‹…2253 \cdot 2^{25} ways to split the entire class into pairs, so that each pair has a boy and a girl who are friends. Prove that any of the friends of the first girl are friends with all the other girls too. G.M.Sharafetdinova