The brothers Sahil and Ritik were arguing about who was smarter when their mother gave them a problem to solve to determine a winner. She presented a group of 6 people and asked the brothers to prove that within the group, there is always a subset of 3 people who are either all mutual friends on Facebook or all strangers with no connection. To solve this, one brother represented the relationships between the 6 people using a 3D cube, where each axis represented a person. He systematically eliminated positions on the cube that couldn't satisfy the criteria until he was left with layers showing there were 3 friends and 3 strangers within the group.