AppliedMultiple choice
Five points are placed anywhere in a square. What is the strongest guarantee the pigeonhole principle gives about them?
- ASome two are within of each other
- BSome two are within of each other
- CSome two are within of each other, a quarter of the diagonal
- DSome three are collinear
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