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Source: IMO 2019 Problem 3
A social network has $2019$ users, some pairs of whom are friends. Whenever user $A$ is friends with user $B$, user $B$ is also friends with user $A$. Events of the following kind may happen repeatedly, one at a time:
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[*] Three users $A$, $B$, and $C$ such that $A$ is friends with both $B$ and $C$, but $B$ and $C$ are not friends, change their friendship statuses such that $B$ and $C$ are now friends, but $A$ is no longer friends with $B$, and no longer friends with $C$. All other friendship statuses are unchanged.
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Initially, $1010$ users have $1009$ friends each, and $1009$ users have $1010$ friends each. Prove that there exists a sequence of such events after which each user is friends with at most one other user.

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hard problem
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$a,b,c>0$ and $a+b+c=7$. CM:
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Removing cell to tile with L tetromino
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N May 3, 2025 by internationalnick123456
Source: [not own] , Mock Thailand Mathematic Olympiad P4
Consider $2025\times 2025$ Define a cell with $\textit{Nice}$ property if after remove that cell from the board The board can be tile with $L$ tetromino.
Find the number of position of $\textit{Nice}$ cell $\newline$ Note: $L$ tetromino can be rotated but not flipped
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Consider $2025\times 2025$ Define a cell with $\textit{Nice}$ property if after remove that cell from the board The board can be tile with $L$ tetromino.
Find the number of position of $\textit{Nice}$ cell $\newline$ Note: $L$ tetromino can be rotated but not flipped
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We prove that if the cell \((x, y)\) is nice, then both \(x\) and \(y\) are odd. To see this, color all cells in columns with odd indices black and all others white. Observe that every L-tetromino always covers an odd number of black cells. Since the number of L-tetrominoes used to tile the board is even, the total number of black cells covered must also be even. However, the total number of black cells on the board is odd. Thus, to balance parity, the cell removed must be black, that is, it must lie in an odd-numbered column. A symmetric argument applied to rows implies that the removed cell must also lie in an odd-numbered row. Hence, if \((x, y)\) is nice, then both \(x\) and \(y\) are odd.
We now prove that if a cell \((x, y)\) is removed and both \(x\) and \(y\) are odd, then the remaining board can be completely tiled by L-tetrominoes. (1)
Claim 1. If one cell is removed from a \(5 \times 5\) board and that cell is one of the four corners or the center, then the remaining board can be tiled by L-tetrominoes.
Proof. This follows by explicitly constructing tilings for these cases. Since the L-tetromino can be rotated, the configurations are symmetric and cover all such removals:
https://media-hosting.imagekit.io/3f8b77da78f9422f/5x5%20(1).png?Expires=1840847625&Key-Pair-Id=K2ZIVPTIP2VGHC&Signature=xX55GGv0Ua0oaW~j0UAVOrWrPJNAN4CT-fJRTqUiaC5A-fxjXbEnR8GfLlyrHDJN2pkreotbIEFIxB8eaR~6j--2Zby5U7ZPnSty06ZGC7qgBTdQb9G2AjfQbDuwi57VARHkBsQKGGLloOOtWDpfwNwc89YtqRAHVpmZD1T~qh5A8Be1drm0jEEwK7frYABwT7ofhgwK2u2TN9M-fQJu5rPRR7mUea8VlnqGexxQrb9zmBOWK1QdebvxALhdDe~gvWlIdjwifbbwPZcFQ-axHTvG1YqhDvOURQnhRY0Cfw~HjatS92R7llOonWJOHQw6U8Utl2yj1xVoCwbc~SW03g__ $\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad$ https://media-hosting.imagekit.io/3f8b77da78f9422f/5x5%20(1).png?Expires=1840847625&Key-Pair-Id=K2ZIVPTIP2VGHC&Signature=xX55GGv0Ua0oaW~j0UAVOrWrPJNAN4CT-fJRTqUiaC5A-fxjXbEnR8GfLlyrHDJN2pkreotbIEFIxB8eaR~6j--2Zby5U7ZPnSty06ZGC7qgBTdQb9G2AjfQbDuwi57VARHkBsQKGGLloOOtWDpfwNwc89YtqRAHVpmZD1T~qh5A8Be1drm0jEEwK7frYABwT7ofhgwK2u2TN9M-fQJu5rPRR7mUea8VlnqGexxQrb9zmBOWK1QdebvxALhdDe~gvWlIdjwifbbwPZcFQ-axHTvG1YqhDvOURQnhRY0Cfw~HjatS92R7llOonWJOHQw6U8Utl2yj1xVoCwbc~SW03g__

Claim 2. Suppose we remove a \((4k - 3) \times (4k - 3)\) sub-board at the corner of a \((4k + 1) \times (4k + 1)\) board. Then the remaining region can be tiled by L-tetrominoes.
Proof. Note that any \(4 \times 4\) square can be tiled by L-tetrominoes. Removing such a \(4 \times 4\) square reduces the problem to tiling a \(5 \times 5\) square with one corner removed, which is covered by Claim 1.

Now, using Claim 2 and induction, we reduce the general case to proving (1) for the base case of a \(9 \times 9\) square. If the removed cell lies in the center or a corner of some \(5 \times 5\) sub-square that itself lies in a corner of the \(9 \times 9\) board, then Claims 1 and 2 together ensure the tiling exists.
Otherwise, the removed cell lies in a position similar to the remaining representative configurations, which can also be covered by known tilings:
https://media-hosting.imagekit.io/8203f39559f54818/9x9_1_optimized.png?Expires=1840848306&Key-Pair-Id=K2ZIVPTIP2VGHC&Signature=rXHvaUrSDb7swwUPR5i42uFPPCMsbCgmk2Yo9Azywc175MhDmVyFhuLkQLFMJnPzwHNu1HqZImyBtRKw2HBq702OkHxYIoEZn4ZRzwCQx~YepO3eQICAiFWDRUjYohug-uYtlNEa4yH-ErWSR7tYKkyFpvGvHltBH3ByvhtZnN1yv67JWBrrvu-y7GgwMVW708jFLk0Gc6ub5BTxIqh7krD7H~1IyGahsvUhoLMpty8Z~if-6N9c5Pmm0Mx4kGIk5HYjUrsrVdlWvln3ya~TnVmbe1Sep-H6TpwVRO3KRlxf23IqD57kk01fcqOLUa4gi0EMJClVoxW6W8reIHbqDQ__ $\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad$ https://media-hosting.imagekit.io/5561fab558c642da/9x9_2_optimized.png?Expires=1840848306&Key-Pair-Id=K2ZIVPTIP2VGHC&Signature=hoHW2GEp5VB0CD~-KDstdjXViKpWxL60XPyrdWXoaxlrc3Nr1UBDl1pb8oJCrqskpccuJUBQ2hAMALURinMWevtcoG1zzypCqtAEPirHiUgVm93RvbAx6JHe5segbASzX01Ye5NMEKvusADyt2FgapErUI5rbDV8JUtxpN7xAWQEkVetPEslzTZAhKXMKST7Pfjx~m-b8kGEe9LLUIDOXdhXGQrQxEL0lpqp9TgyYYAe1qL7-mPpPz~z1utIqmpONAOqNncP2pVKSS-0trUr9FzfcRBu68iiizTtAngJKU94uzpcB2zBG3cyDSDBSuSBXgHU~zLLGIotczsqx7lvGA__

Therefore, the number of nice cells is
\[
\left\lceil \frac{2025}{2} \right\rceil^2 = 1013^2 = 1026169
\]Comment
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