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Geometry Difficulty 5.3 AIME, harder Prove it

Decide if it is possible to consider 2011 points in a plane such that the distance between every two of these points is different from 1 and each unit circle centered at one of these points leaves exactly 1005 points outside the circle.

Solution

NO. If such a configuration existed, the number of segments starting from each of the 2011 points towards the other one and having length less than 1 would be 1005. Since each segment is counted twice, their total number would be 10052011/21005 \cdot 2011 / 2 which is not an integer, contradiction!

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