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Counting & ProbabilityHardCounting Strategies: Casework, Complementary & Overcounting

Counting Strategies: Casework, Complementary & Overcounting · Hard problem

In how many ways can 1515 be written as a sum of three positive integers, where order does not matter (that is, how many triples satisfy a≤b≤ca\le b\le c and a+b+c=15a+b+c=15)?