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AIME 2008a Problem 11

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Consider sequences that consist entirely of AA's and BB's and that have the property that every run of consecutive AA's has even length, and every run of consecutive BB's has odd length. Examples of such sequences are AAAA, BB, and AABAAAABAA, while BBABBBAB is not such a sequence. How many such sequences have length 14?

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