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UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad, 2021

Combinatorics Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

Aston wants to colour exactly three of the cells in the grid shown so that the coloured grid has rotational symmetry of order two. Each of the cells in the grid is a square. In how many ways can Aston do this?

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