HMMT November 2016 T7
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Rachel has two indistinguishable tokens, and places them on the first and second square of a grid of squares, She can move the pieces in two ways:
- If a token has free square in front of it, then she can move this token one square to the right
- If the square immediately to the right of a token is occupied by the other token, then she can "leapfrog" the first token; she moves the first token two squares to the right, over the other token, so that it is on the square immediately to the right of the other token.
If a token reaches the 6th square, then it cannot move forward any more, and Rachel must move the other one until it reaches the 5th square. How many different sequences of moves for the tokens can Rachel make so that the two tokens end up on the 5 th square and the 6 th square?
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