RU-ALLRUSSIAN 2023 Problem 104
- Grade 10
There is a queue of girls on one side of a tennis table, and a queue of boys on the other side. Both the girls and the boys are numbered from to in the order they stand. The first game is played by the girl and the boy with the number 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 is odd, then a girl and a boy with odd numbers played in the last game.
Proposed by A. Gribalko
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