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3 If any square of a
chessboard is removed,
the remaining squares can be covered by L-triominoes. (That is, by blocks
of size equal to three board squares, connected in an ``L'' shape).
(This problem is often given where the square removed from the large
chessboard is a corner square - but the proof works for any square.)
4 In a certain country, each town is connected to
every other town by a (single) one-way road. Prove
that there is one town from which you can drive to
any other (you may need to stop in intermediate towns to do it).
5 With the same setup of towns and road
as the previous problem, can
you show that there
is a town from which you can drive to any other, stopping
in at most one intermediate town?
6 In the same setup as the previous two problems (but with
the additional restriction that there are at least three towns)
- can you show that, by changing the direction of at most one road,
it is possible to get from ANY town to every other?