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Putnam 2013 A1

  • Session A

Recall that a regular icosahedron is a convex polyhedron having 12 vertices and 20 faces; the faces are congruent equilateral triangles. On each face of a regular icosahedron is written a nonnegative integer such that the sum of all 20 integers is 39. Show that there are two faces that share a vertex and have the same integer written on them.

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Solutions

Human solution Solution 1 by Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng

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