A Tricolor Triangulation

9/10combinatoricsInductionCasework

Problem

Each side of a convex 20192019-gon is colored red, green, or blue, with exactly 673673 sides of each color. Prove that one can draw 20162016 diagonals of the polygon, pairwise non-intersecting in the interior, that partition it into 20172017 triangles, and color each of these diagonals red, green, or blue, so that in every triangle of the partition the three sides are either all the same color or of three distinct colors.

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Difficulty9/10
Topicscombinatorics, Induction, Casework

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