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Problem

The sides of a $99$-gon are initially colored so that consecutive sides are red, blue, red, blue,..., red, blue, yellow. We make a sequence of modifications in the coloring, changing the color of one side at a time to one of the three given colors (red, blue, yellow), under the constraint that no two adjacent sides may be the same color. By making a sequence of such modifications, is it possible to arrive at the coloring in which consecutive sides are red, blue, red, blue, red, blue,..., red, yellow, blue?

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See Also

1994 USAMO (ProblemsResources)
Preceded by
Problem 1
Followed by
Problem 3
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All USAMO Problems and Solutions

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