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Symmetric Matrices & Quadratic Forms · Superchallenge problem

Consider all real symmetric 3×33\times 3 matrices whose diagonal entries all equal 22 and whose off-diagonal entries each lie in {−1,0,1}\{-1, 0, 1\} (so there are 2727 such matrices). How many of them are positive definite?