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Number theory Difficulty 5.0 AIME, harder Prove it United Kingdom

Hudson labels each of the four vertices of a triangular pyramid with a different integer chosen from 1 to 15. For each of the four triangular faces, he then calculates the mean of the three numbers at the vertices of the face. Given that the means calculated by Hudson are all integers, how many different sets of four numbers could he have chosen to label the vertices of the triangular pyramid?

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