Turkey NMO 2011 q6
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December 8, 2011
combinatorics unsolvedcombinatorics
Problem Statement
Let and two countries which inlude exactly cities.There is exactly one flight from a city of to a city of and there is no domestic flights (flights are bi-directional).For every city (doesn't matter from or from ), there exist at most different airline such that airline have a flight from to the another city.For an integer , (it doesn't matter how flights arranged ) we can say that there exists at least cities such that it is possible to trip from one of these cities to another with same airline.So find the maximum value of .