Proximity
Stage: 4 Challenge Level:

We have to prove the statement:
If a regular icosahedron has three red vertices then it has a
vertex that has at least two red neighbours.
We can use an argument by contradiction. We suppose that
NOvertex has more than one red neighbour and reach a
contradiction thus showing that this statement must be false
Without loss of generality you can think about the top vertex being
red and decide what that means for the other vertices around
it.
Published September 2000.