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2013 Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Qualification Repechage

Part of Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Qualification Repechage

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Triangle Friendly Sequences

Consider the following layouts of nine triangles with the letters A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,IA, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I in its interior.
[asy] /* Geogebra to Asymptote conversion, documentation at artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki, go to User:Azjps/geogebra */ import graph; size(200); real labelscalefactor = 0.5; /* changes label-to-point distance */ pen dps = linewidth(0.7) + fontsize(10); defaultpen(dps); /* default pen style */ pen dotstyle = black; /* point style */ real xmin = 1.740000000000003, xmax = 8.400000000000013, ymin = 3.500000000000005, ymax = 9.360000000000012; /* image dimensions */
draw((5.020000000000005,8.820000000000011)--(2.560000000000003,4.580000000000005)--(7.461947712046029,4.569577506690286)--cycle); /* draw figures */ draw((5.020000000000005,8.820000000000011)--(2.560000000000003,4.580000000000005)); draw((2.560000000000003,4.580000000000005)--(7.461947712046029,4.569577506690286)); draw((7.461947712046029,4.569577506690286)--(5.020000000000005,8.820000000000011)); draw((3.382989341689345,5.990838871467448)--(4.193333333333338,4.580000000000005)); draw((4.202511849578174,7.405966442513598)--(5.828619600041468,4.573707435672692)); draw((5.841878190157451,7.408513542990484)--(4.193333333333338,4.580000000000005)); draw((6.656214943659867,5.990342259816768)--(5.828619600041468,4.573707435672692)); draw((4.202511849578174,7.405966442513598)--(5.841878190157451,7.408513542990484)); draw((3.382989341689345,5.990838871467448)--(6.656214943659867,5.990342259816768)); label("A",(4.840000000000007,8.020000000000010),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); label("B",(3.980000000000006,6.640000000000009),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); label("C",(4.820000000000007,7.000000000000010),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); label("D",(5.660000000000008,6.580000000000008),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); label("E",(3.160000000000005,5.180000000000006),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); label("F",(4.020000000000006,5.600000000000008),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); label("G",(4.800000000000007,5.200000000000007),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); label("H",(5.680000000000009,5.620000000000007),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); label("I",(6.460000000000010,5.140000000000006),SE*labelscalefactor,fontsize(22)); /* dots and labels */ clip((xmin,ymin)--(xmin,ymax)--(xmax,ymax)--(xmax,ymin)--cycle); /* end of picture */[/asy]
A sequence of letters, each letter chosen fromA,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I is said to be triangle-friendly if the first and last letter of the sequence is CC, and for every letter except the first letter, the triangle containing this letter shares an edge with the triangle containing the previous letter in the sequence. For example, the letter after CC must be either A,BA, B, or DD. For example, CBFBCCBF BC is triangle-friendly, but CBFGHCBF GH and CBBHCCBBHC are not.

[*] (a) Determine the number of triangle-friendly sequences with 20122012 letters.
[*] (b) Determine the number of triangle-friendly sequences with exactly 20132013 letters.