2021 Combo Div 1 P1 (Div 2 P3)
Source:
March 2, 2021
combinatorics
Problem Statement
Adam has a box with pool balls in it, numbered from to , and picks out 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 . How many selections of balls could he have drawn from the box?Proposed by Adam Bertelli