Coloring the Regions of a Ring-Shaped Flower Bed

★ 5/10combinatoricsCountingRecursion

Problem

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A ring-shaped flower bed is divided into 55 regions, as shown in the figure. Each region is to be planted with one kind of flower, chosen from 44 available colors, and any two adjacent regions must receive different colors.

(1) Find the number of different planting schemes.

(2) Replace the number of regions in part (1) by nn (where n≥3n \ge 3), keeping the same rules. Find the number of different planting schemes.

(3) In part (2), replace the number of available colors by mm (where m≥2m \ge 2). Find the number of different planting schemes.

Answer

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Difficulty5/10
Topicscombinatorics, Counting, Recursion

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