KöMaL problem A, 2020

Combinatorics Difficulty 6.0 National Olympiad Prove it Hungary

Finite graph $G(V,E)$ on $n$ points is drawn in the plane. For an edge $e$ of the graph let $x(e)$ denote the number of edges that cross over edge $e$ . Prove that

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