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The societies going against the government will be punished.

Source: Tuymaada 2002, day 1, problem 4. - Authors : V. Dolnikov, D. Karpov.

May 25, 2007
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Problem Statement

There are many opposition societies in the city of N. Each society consists of 1010 members. It is known that for every 20042004 societies there is a person belonging to at least 1111 of them. Prove that the government can arrest 20032003 people so that at least one member of each society is arrested.
Proposed by V.Dolnikov, D.Karpov