students are seated at desks in an array, where . Each student shakes hands with the students who are adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally. If there are handshakes, what is ?
OMM 1995
Mexican Mathematical Olympiad 1995.
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Find elements of such that the product of two of them is never a square. Show that one cannot find such elements.
is a convex pentagon such that the triangles and have equal areas. Show that area area area .
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