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Restaurants

Source: Polish MO

February 25, 2017
combinatoricsgraph theoryPoland

Problem Statement

Gourmet Jan compared nn restaurants (nn is a positive integer). Each pair of restaurants was compared in two categories: tastiness of food and quality of service. For some pairs Jan couldn't tell which restaurant was better in one category, but never in two categories. Moreover, if Jan thought restaurant AA was better than restaurant BB in one category and restaurant BB was better than restaurant CC in the same category, then AA is also better than CC in that category. Prove there exists a restaurant RR such that every other restaurant is worse than RR in at least one category.