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ISL 1966 Problem 43

    Given 55 points in a plane, no three of them being collinear. Each two of these 55 points are joined with a segment, and every of these segments is painted either red or blue; assume that there is no triangle whose sides are segments of equal color.

    a.) Show that:

    (1) Among the four segments originating at any of the 55 points, two are red and two are blue.

    (2) The red segments form a closed way passing through all 55 given points. (Similarly for the blue segments.)

    b.) Give a plan how to paint the segments either red or blue in order to have the condition (no triangle with equally colored sides) satisfied.

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