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2020 HMMT November General Round Problem 8
A bar of chocolate is made of 10 distinguishable triangles as shown below:
How many ways are there to divide the bar, along the edges of the triangles, into two or more contiguous pieces?
Answers are checked by value, so any equivalent form is accepted: 1/2, \frac{1}{2} and 0.5 all count as the same answer.
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