Stability

Not a great coupling. Why?

A stable marriage is a marriage in which no boy-girl pair would want to swap spouses.

Such a pair is unstable because they'd rather dump their partners and marry each other than stay with who they've got.

Theorem 1: If there is no unstable pair, then there is also no unstable coalition. Why? A coalition is really just a set of pairs.

Can you find a stable marriage for this group?


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