Erdős Problem #842 — Three-colouring triangles joined by a Hamiltonian cycle

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Take nn vertex-disjoint triangles and add a Hamiltonian cycle through their 3n3n vertices using none of the triangle edges. Is the resulting graph always 3-colourable?

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P. Erdős, Some of my favourite problems in various branches of combinatorics, Le Matematiche 47 (1992), no. 2, 231–240.

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