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Combinatorics Difficulty 7.0 National Olympiad, round 2 Prove it Hungary

Let P\mathcal{P} be a set of ten points in the plane. A subset QP\mathcal{Q}\subseteq \mathcal{P} is said to be isolable if there exists a closed disk of positive integer radius that contains all points of Q\mathcal{Q} but none of the points of PQ\mathcal{P}\setminus\mathcal{Q}. Prove that at least one third of the five-element subsets of P\mathcal{P} are not isolable.

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