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10×2 Grid Squares Filling

1925SpecialistCombinatoricsCounting Principles

Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament

You are given a $10 \times 2$ grid of unit squares. Two different squares are adjacent if they share a side. How many ways can one mark exactly nine of the squares so that no two marked squares are adjacent?
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