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UKMT Mathematical Olympiad for Girls, 2014

Combinatorics Difficulty 1.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

Some strings of three letters have the property that all three letters are the same; for example, LLL is such a string.

How many strings of three letters do not have all three letters the same?

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