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Weekly Problem 41 - 2007
The Queen of Spades always lies for the whole day or tells the truth for the whole day. Which of these statements can she never say?

Proximity

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

We are given a regular icosahedron having three red vertices. Show that it has a vertex that has at least two red neighbours.

If you're stuck, try this proof sorting activity.
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This problem was taken from the Hungarian magazine KoMaL. There are many other challenging problems in English on the KoMal website.
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