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KöMaL problem A, 2015

Combinatorics Difficulty 7.0 National Olympiad, round 2 Prove it Hungary

Let nn be a positive integer. Let F\mathcal{F} be a family of sets that contains more than half of all subsets of an nn-element set XX. Prove that from F\mathcal{F} we can select ⌈log⁡2n⌉+1\lceil\log_2n\rceil+1 sets that form a separating family on XX, i.e., for any two distinct elements of XX there is a selected set containing exactly one of the two elements.
Miklós Schweitzer competition, 2014
(5 pont)

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