For odd number of students, it's easy to construct a situation that all of them are king chicken:
Label them from 1
to n
, every one pecks the (n-1)/2
students numbered after him (labels wrap around from n
to 1
).
In this case, for every people, those (n-1)/2
students pecked him is pecked by the last people he pecked.
For example, for 7
students (Test 4),
Student 1 pecks Student 2,3,4, and Student 4 pecks Student 5,6,7, make Student 1 king chicken;
Student 2 pecks Student 3,4,5, and Student 5 pecks Student 6,7,1, make Student 2 king chicken;
etc.
For even number of students, things get interesting:
n=2
is impossible for both of them to be king; one must peck the other.