Problem 150

Two million distinct points are chosen at random in the plane. Show that, no matter how closely together these points may be chosen, it is always possible to draw a straight line through their midst so that it misses all of the points and splits them in half (that is, a million on each side).


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Given any two million points, there are at most \(\binom{2\,000\,000}{2}\) lines that can be drawn that pass through two of these points.

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