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MathNet 2011 Question 64

Math Olympiad Vault · MathNet 2011

Question 64

Each brick of a set has 5 holes in a horizontal row. We can either place pins into individual holes or brackets into two neighboring holes. No hole is allowed to remain empty. We place $n$ such bricks in a row in order to create patterns running from left to right, in which no two brackets are allowed to follow another, and no three pins may be in a row. How many such patterns of bricks can be created?