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2007 AMC 12A Problem 25

Call a set of integers *spacy* if it contains no more than one out of any three consecutive integers. How many subsets of \{1,2,3,\ldots,12\}, including the empty set, are spacy?

\mathrm{(A)}\ 121 \qquad \mathrm{(B)}\ 123 \qquad \mathrm{(C)}\ 125 \qquad \mathrm{(D)}\ 127 \qquad \mathrm{(E)}\ 129


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