You pass through five traffic signals on your way to work. Each is either red, yellow, or green. A red is always immediately followed by a yellow; a green is never followed immediately by a green. How many different sequences of colors are possible for the five signals?

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    You pass through five traffic signals on your way to work. Each is either red, yellow, or green. A red is always immediately followed by a yellow; a green is never followed immediately by a green. How many different sequences of colors are possible for the five signals?

    2.Th e equation a5 + b2 + c2 = 2020 has a solution in positive integers a, b, and c in which a is a factor of c.  Find 3a + 2b + c.


    3. Let S be the empty set. Add the elements of {1, 2} to S, and after 1 minute randomly remove 1 element of S. Next add the 4 elements of {3, 4, 5, 6} to S and after 30 sec randomly remove 2 of the 5 elements of S. Continue this process forever, each time doubling the number of elements added and removed and halving the time. To the nearest hundredth of a minute, find the average length of time 1 remains in S.

 
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