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2011 Spring LMT Individual Round Problem 16

Source:

September 11, 2023
combinatorics

Problem Statement

A magic square is a 3×33\times 3 grid of numbers in which the sums of the numbers in each row, column, and long diagonal are all equal. How many magic squares exist where each of the integers from 1111 to 1919 inclusive is used exactly once and two of the numbers are already placed as shown below?
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|} \hline & & 18 \\ \hline & 15 & \\ \hline & & \\ \hline \end{tabular}