Problem

Source: 239 2015 S P7

Tags: Magician, combinatorics



Two magicians are about to show the next trick. A circle is drawn on the board with one semicircle marked. Viewers mark 100 points on this circle, then the first magician erases one of them. After this, the second one for the first time looks at the drawing and determines from the remaining 99 points whether the erased point was lying on the marked semicircle. Prove that such a trick will not always succeed.