Programming Exercise #4: Super fun edition

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Tolnaftate2004

Today's challenge will include 2 problems:

1. hard Suppose that you are organizing housing accommodations for a group of four hundred university students. Space is limited and only one hundred of the students will receive places in the dormitory. To complicate matters, the Dean has provided you with a list of pairs of incompatible students, and requested that no pair from this list appear in your final choice.
   The point of this exercise is to GENERATE DISCUSSION. We are not asking you to WRITE the code, merely speculate as to how you might do it. BUT IF YOU FEEL COMPELLED, write the code to accomodate arbitrary lists from the Dean.
2. easy Solve this problem.

Is it possible for you to write in a little more simple English for me? I don't understand the task quite well, though I'd like to give it a go