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Sophie colors every triangle side in red, green or blue in 12 triangles fig.

Source: 2021 Francophone MO Juniors p2

April 3, 2021
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Problem Statement

Evariste has drawn twelve triangles as follows, so that two consecutive triangles share exactly one edge. https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/6/2/50377e7ad5fb1c40e36725e43c7eeb1e3c2849.png Sophie colors every triangle side in red, green or blue. Among the 3243^{24} possible colorings, how many have the property that every triangle has one edge of each color?