HMMT 2004 U40
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You would like to provide airline service to the 10 cities in the nation of Schizophrenia, by instituting a certain number of two-way routes between cities. Unfortunately, the government is about to divide Schizophrenia into two warring countries of five cities each, and you don't know which cities will be in each new country. All airplane service between the two new countries will be discontinued. However, you want to make sure that you set up your routes so that, for any two cities in the same new country, it will be possible to get from one city to the other (without leaving the country). What is the minimum number of routes you must set up to be assured of doing this, no matter how the government divides up the country?
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