Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2025/iii/paper-109/4/ii/solution

Partition the family into complementary pairs . Choose at most one member from each pair to obtain with . Distinct members of are not disjoint, and the hypothesis excludes intersection size . Since their intersection sizes lie between and , they therefore lie modulo in
Every member has size , which is outside . The Frankl-Wilson theorem gives
and hence
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