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2021 Combo Div 1 P1 (Div 2 P3)

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March 2, 2021
combinatorics

Problem Statement

Adam has a box with 1515 pool balls in it, numbered from 11 to 1515, and picks out 55 of them. He then sorts them in increasing order, takes the four differences between each pair of adjacent balls, and finds exactly two of these differences are equal to 11. How many selections of 55 balls could he have drawn from the box?
Proposed by Adam Bertelli