2026 AIME II Problem 15
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15.
Find the number of ordered 7-tuples having the following properties:
• for all
• is a multiple of
• is a multiple of
Solution:
Work modulo entries are and entries are Because the differences of hit every nonzero residue mod exactly once, the seven triples are the lines of a Fano plane on the positions: every pair of positions lies on exactly one line, and any two lines meet in exactly one point. Let be the set of positions holding a and A product term survives exactly when its line avoids contributing and the linear condition constrains the values to sum to mod
Casework on the all-s tuple works: a single can't sum to none. no line survives; the two nonzero entries must be a and a three s sum to only if all equal, and the three nonzero positions must not form a line, else its product is four s must split two and two; exactly one line avoids a non-line (spoiling the sum), while a line is avoided by no line: five s must go four and one; exactly two lines avoid meeting at a point and covering the five positions, and their products cancel exactly when the lone minority value avoids six s sum to if all equal or three of each; the four lines avoiding pairwise meet in the six nonzero positions, and since the product of all four line-products is we need exactly two negative lines. All-equal gives or negative lines; for three 's, viewing positions as edges of on the four lines, a line is negative exactly when it has odd degree in the chosen -edge set, and exactly the three-edge paths (of the subsets) give two odd degrees: seven s need two or five 's, which make or lines negative respectively, but needs none.
The total is
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