Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/iii/paper-109/3/ii/solution

No example exists for , because the unique point in would also lie in the total intersection; the one-member case is excluded by nontriviality. For every , take ground set and define the near-pencil
Two small sets meet in , each small set meets in its other point, and the total intersection is empty. Thus the required values are exactly .

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