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KöMaL problem A, 2024

Combinatorics Difficulty 7.0 National Olympiad, round 2 Prove it Hungary

A non self-intersecting polygon is given in a Cartesian coordinate system such that its perimeter contains no lattice points, and its vertices have no integer coordinates. A point is called semi-integer if exactly one of its coordinates is an integer. Let P1P_1, P2P_2, …\ldots, PkP_k denote the semi-integer points on the perimeter of the polygon. Let nin_i denote the floor of the non-integer coordinate of PiP_i. Prove that integers n1,n2,…,nkn_1, n_2, \ldots , n_k can be divided into two groups with the same sum.

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