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Infinite Supply Red Blue Green Beads

1925SpecialistCombinatoricsCounting Principles

15th Annual Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament

Luna has an infinite supply of red, blue, orange, and green socks. She wants to arrange $2012$ socks in a line such that no red sock is adjacent to a blue sock and no orange sock is adjacent to a green sock. How many ways can she do this?
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