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RU-ALLRUSSIAN 2023 Problem 104

  • Grade 10

There is a queue of nn{} girls on one side of a tennis table, and a queue of nn{} boys on the other side. Both the girls and the boys are numbered from 11{} to nn{} in the order they stand. The first game is played by the girl and the boy with the number 11{} and then, after each game, the loser goes to the end of their queue, and the winner remains at the table. After a while, it turned out that each girl played exactly one game with each boy. Prove that if nn{} is odd, then a girl and a boy with odd numbers played in the last game.

Proposed by A. Gribalko

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