Consider a graph with four vertices and where each vertex is connected to every other one (this is called the complete graph of four vertices, sometimes written as \(K_4\)). We write the numbers \(10,20,30,\) and \(40\) on the vertices. We play the following game: choose any vertex, and subtract three from that vertex, and add one to each of the three other vertices, so an example could be:
After playing this game for some number of steps, can we make the graph have the number \(25\) on each vertex?