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Counting Strategies: Casework, Complementary & Overcounting · Challenge problem

A 55-leg relay team is selected AND ordered (which runner takes legs 11 through 55) from 88 sprinters. Two of the sprinters, X and Y, refuse to run consecutive legs of the relay (if both are on the team at all). How many valid ordered teams are there?