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TUYMAADA 2023 S7

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Hexagonal pieces numbered by positive integers are placed on the cells of a hexagonal board with side nn . Two adjacent cells are left empty, and thanks to it some pieces can be moved. Two pieces with common sides exchanged places (see an example in the attachment 2).

Prove that if n≥3n \ge 3 the second arrangement cannot be obtained from the first one by moving piece

Note. Moving a piece a requires two adjacent empty cells. For instance, if they are on the right of a (attachment 1, left figure), a can be moved right till it touches an angle (attachment 1, middle figure), and then it can be moved upward right or downward right (attachment 1, right figure)

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How Pieces Move.png

Arragement.png

Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.

Official text: Tuymaada Olympiad 2023 official paper, page 1.

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