Problem

Source: 2021 Francophone MO Juniors p2

Tags: Coloring, combinatorics, graph theory, counting, Francophone



Evariste has drawn twelve triangles as follows, so that two consecutive triangles share exactly one edge. Sophie colors every triangle side in red, green or blue. Among the $3^{24}$ possible colorings, how many have the property that every triangle has one edge of each color?