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Chapter 5 Problem 5.158

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In a round-robin tournament each team plays every other team exactly once. If the teams are labeled T1,T2,...,Tn, then the outcome of such a tournament can be represented by a drawing, called a directed graph, in which the teams are represented as dots and an arrow is drawn from one dot to another if, and only if, the team represented by the rst dot beats the team represented by the second dot. For example, the directed graph below shows one outcome of a round-robin tournament involving ve teams, A, B, C, D, and E.Use mathematical induction to show that in any roundrobin tournament involving n teams, where n 2, it is possible to label the teams T1,T2,...,Tn so that Ti beats Ti+1 for all i =1,2,...,n1. (For instance, one such labeling in the example above is T1 = A,T2 = B,T3 = C,T4 = E,T5 = D.)(Hint:Givenk+1teams,pickone say Tand apply the inductive hypothesis to the remaining teams to obtain an ordering T1,T2,...,Tk. Consider threecases: Tbeats T1,Tlosestotherstm teams(where 1m k1) and beats the (m+1)st team, and Tloses to all the other teams.)

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Title Discrete Mathematics: Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning 1 
Author Susanna S. Epp
ISBN 9780495826170

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