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2020 AMC 10BProblem 17P16-20~7 minPrint

There are 1010 people standing equally spaced around a circle. Each person knows exactly 33 of the other 99 people: the 22 people standing next to him or her, as well as the person directly across the circle. How many ways are there for the 1010 people to split up into 55 pairs so that the members of each pair know each other?

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