2025 AIME II Problems/Problem 10
Problem
Sixteen chairs are arranged in a row. Eight people each select a chair in which to sit so that no person sits next to two other people. Let 
be the number of subsets of 
chairs that could be selected. Find the remainder when is divided by 
.
Solution 1: Casework
Let's split the problem into a few cases:
Case 1: All 
people are sitting isolated (no person sits next to any of them): 
Case 2: 
people are isolated, 
people sit next to each other (such that each person sits next to either 
or 
other person): 
Case 3: 
people are isolated, people sit next to each other and other people sit next to each other with the groups of people not sitting next to each other (so each person still sits next to either or other person): 
Case 4: people are isolated, people are split into 
groups of people, and no groups sit next to each other: 
Case 5: groups of , no groups are sitting next to each other: 
Answer: 
(mod 1000) = 
.
(Feel free to correct any format/latex problems)
~Mitsuihisashi14
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