Solution

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Complementing every friendship sends every degree to , and hence sends to . Since the random graph and its complement have the same law, the distribution of is symmetric about , giving .
The same symmetry gives equal probabilities strictly below and above . There is positive probability at : for odd use a regular graph of degree ; for even , use with a perfect matching removed and then restore one matching edge. Thus the lower median as defined is also .

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