Baltic Way 1995 · Problem 15
Combinatorics
A polygon with vertices is given. Show that it is possible to label the vertices and midpoints of the sides of the polygon, using all the numbers , so that the sums of the three numbers assigned to each side are all equal.
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Topics
Colorings and configurations · Pigeonhole and extremal arguments
Solutions
Solution
Solution:
First, label the midpoints of the sides of the polygon with the numbers , in clockwise order. Then, beginning with the vertex between the sides labelled by and , label every second vertex in clockwise order with the numbers .
Contest context
Results from Baltic Way 1995
9 teams
- Mean score
- 2.2 / 5
- Scores of 4 or 5
- 4 / 9
- Estonia
- 0 / 5
Score distribution
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10
20
30
40
54
All team scores
| Team | Score |
|---|---|
| Poland | 5 / 5 |
| Latvia | 5 / 5 |
| Sweden | 0 / 5 |
| Lithuania | 0 / 5 |
| Denmark | 5 / 5 |
| Finland | 5 / 5 |
| St. Petersburg | 0 / 5 |
| Estonia | 0 / 5 |
| Iceland | 0 / 5 |