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2025 AMC 10BProblem 16P16-20~5 minPrint

A circle has been divided into 66 sectors of different sizes. Then 22 of the sectors are painted red, 22 painted green, and 22 painted blue so that no two neighboring sectors are painted the same color. One such coloring is shown below.

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How many different colorings are possible?

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