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no of ways to create a calendar for 3-part summer camp

Source: VII - Mathematics Regional Olympiad of Mexico Northeast 2007 P1

September 17, 2022
combinatorics

Problem Statement

In a summer camp that is going to last nn weeks, you want to divide the time into 33 periods so that each period starts on a Monday and ends on a Sunday. The first period will be dedicated to artistic work, the second will be for sports and in the third there will be a technological workshop. During each term, a Monday will be chosen for an expert on the topic of the term to give a talk. Let C(n)C(n) be the number of ways in which the activity calendar can be made. (For example, if n=10n=10 one way the calendar could be done is by putting the first four weeks for art and the artist talk on the first Monday; the next 55 weeks could be for sports, with the athlete visit on the fourth Monday of that period; the remaining week would be for the technology workshop and the talk would be on Monday of that week.) Calculate C(8)C(8).