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In a city, there are 15 telephones. Can I connect them with wires so that each phone is connected exactly with five others?

In a state there are 100 cities, and from each of them there are 4 roads. How many roads are there in the state?

There are 30 people in the class. Can it be that 9 of them have 3 friends (in this class), 11 have 4 friends, and 10 have 5 friends?

In the city Smallville there are 15 telephones. Can they be connected by wires so that there are four phones, each of which is connected to three others, eight phones, each of which is connected to six, and three phones, each of which is connected to five others?

A king divided his kingdom into 19 counties who are governed by 19 lords. Could it be that each lord’s county has one, five or nine neighbouring counties?

John, coming back from Disneyland, told me that there are seven islands on the enchanted lake, each of which is lead to by one, three or five bridges. Is it true that at least one of these bridges necessarily leads to the shore of the lake?

Prove that the number of people who have ever lived on Earth and who shook hands an odd number of times is even.

Is it possible to draw 9 segments on a plane so that each intersects exactly three others?

In the country Seven there are 15 cities, each of which is connected by roads with no less than seven other cities. Prove that from every city you can get to any other city (possibly passing through other cities).