IMC 2018 · Problem 8

Day 225th IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Let Ω={(x,y,z)Z3:y+1xyz0}\Omega = \{(x, y, z) \in \mathbb{Z}^3 : y + 1 \ge x \ge y \ge z \ge 0\}. A frog moves along the points of Ω\Omega by jumps of length 11. For every positive integer nn, determine the number of paths the frog can take to reach (n,n,n)(n, n, n) starting from (0,0,0)(0, 0, 0) in exactly 3n3n jumps.

Official solution

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Proposed by Fedor Petrov and Anatoly Vershik, St. Petersburg State University.