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Problem of the Month – December 2023

There are several red and several white boxes on the table, each of these boxes contains at
least one ball. A positive integer number not exceeding 1111 is written on each of these balls.

  • Any two boxes contain different number of balls.
  • No box contains two balls with the same number.
  • For each 1 ≤ i ≤ 1111 there is at most one red box containing ball with number i.
  • For each 1 ≤ i ≤ 1111 there is at most one white box containing ball with number i.

Find the maximal possible number of boxes on the table.

 

Correct Solutions by,

  • Toshihiro Shimizu Kawasaki, Japan
  • Roger Bengtsson Lund, Sweden
  • Magnus Jakobsson Lund, Sweden
  • Arda Karahan Trabzon Fen Lisesi
  • Vedat Deveci İstanbul
  • Abdulkadir Tanrıverdi Eskişehir
  • Yusuf Büyük Haliç University
  • Özer Aydemir
  • Partrik Wild Lund, Sweden
  • K. Sengupta Calcutta, India
  • Tuna Demircioğlu
  • Ananda Raidu Bangalore, India
  • Mümtaz Ulaş Keskin Erciyes University

Solution: http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~cvmath/Problem/2312a.pdf