1959 AHSME Problems/Problem 50
A club with members is organized into four committees in accordance with these two rules:
Then :
Solution
We can label each of the members with the pair of committees that they belong to, which is clearly valid due to rule (1). Then, by rule (2), for each pair of committees, there is exactly one member labeled with that pair. But since we have four committees, there must be members in total. Thusly our choice is , and we are done.
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