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Combinatorics Difficulty 5.0 AIME, harder Prove it United Kingdom

On an ordinary clock-face the numbers in adjacent positions always differ either by 1 or 11. Is it possible to re-arrange the numbers 1 to 12 round the clock-face so that the two numbers in adjacent positions always differ either by 3, 4, or 5?

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