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Can the equality \(K \times O \times T = U \times W \times E \times N \times H \times Y\) be true if the numbers from 1 to 9 are substituted for the letters? Different letters correspond to different numbers.

A professional tennis player plays at least one match each day for training purposes. However in order to ensure he does not over-exert himself he plays no more than 12 matches a week. Prove that it is possible to find a group of consecutive days during which the player plays a total of 20 matches.

A country is called a Fiver if, in it, each city is connected by airlines with exactly with five other cities (there are no international flights).

a) Draw a scheme of airlines for a country that is made up of 10 cities.

b) How many airlines are there in a country of 50 cities?

c) Can there be a Fiver country, in which there are exactly 46 airlines?

Write out in a row the numbers from \(1\) to \(9\) (every number once) so that every two consecutive numbers give a two-digit number that is divisible by \(7\) or by \(13\).