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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ii Paper 1 17G c Solution by
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Partition the vertex set into disjoint sets and of sizes and . The induced subgraph on has distributionFor ,so part (b) shows that contains a triangle with probability tending to one.
On that event, choose a triangle using only the edges internal to . The edges from its three vertices to remain independent of this choice. The probability that all such edges are absent isbecause . Thus, with probability tending to one, some vertex of is adjacent to a vertex of the triangle. Those four vertices and the four required edges form the given graph , a triangle with an attached leaf in a binomial random graph. Therefore
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