Ramsey Theory - Applying to finite sets

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Let $n ≥7$, and let $C$ be a collection of 15 distinct 5-element subsets of [n]. Prove that it is possible to color each element of $[n]$ yellow or orange so that each set belonging to $C$ has elements of both colors.

I know this is an applicaiton of Ramsey theory, but I'm not sure how to approach it since we could pick any n more than 7.

Maybe I'm completely wrong and it might not be ramsey theory related!

Also, I'm not sure how we'd relate this to a graph since we're coloring elements (vertices) as opposed to the edges themselves.

Thank you.

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Colour the elements randomly (independently and uniformly). The expected number of monochromatic subsets is $\frac{15}{16}\lt1$. Hence at least one colouring must be contributing to this expectation with $0$ monochromatic sets.