Consider a un-rooted tree T which is not the biological significance of tree or plant, but a tree as an undirected graph in graph theory with n nodes, labelled from 1 to n. If you cannot understand the concept of a tree here, please omit this problem.
Now we decide to colour its nodes with k distinct colours, labelled from 1 to k. Then for each colour i = 1, 2, · · · , k, define Ei as the minimum subset of edges connecting all nodes coloured by i. If there is no node of the tree coloured by a specified colour i, Ei will be empty.
Try to decide a colour scheme to maximize the size of E1 ∩ E2 · · · ∩ Ek, and output its size.