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2014 AMC 10BProblem 24P21-25~8 minPrint

The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are to be arranged in a circle. An arrangement is bad if it is not true that for every nn from 11 to 1515 one can find a subset of the numbers that appear consecutively on the circle that sum to nn . Arrangements that differ only by a rotation or a reflection are considered the same. How many different bad arrangements are there?

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