Problem Analysis #5

GPT-oss-20B (high) · Run 3

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Problem Statement

A regular cube has its 12 edges colored with 12 different colors. Each edge is colored with exactly one color, and any two edges that share a vertex must receive different colors. Express the probability that all 12 edges are colored with pairwise distinct colors as a reduced fraction qp\frac{q}{p} and calculate p+qp+q.

This problem is based on RUC-AIBOX. OlymMATH: A Dataset of Olympiad-Level Math Problems (en-hard split, test row 31). Available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/RUC-AIBOX/OlymMATH

Ground Truth
6149513
Execution Trace
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>commentary to=python <|constrain|>analysis code<|message|>from functools import lru_cache import math, sys

Build cube graph edges

vertices = [(x,y,z) for x in (0,1) for y in (0,1) for z in (0,1)] vertex_index = {v:i for i,v in enumerate(vertices)}

edges: pairs of vertices that differ by exactly one coordinate

cube_edges = [] for i,v in enumerate(vertices): for j,w in enumerate(vertices): if i<j: # check difference diff = sum(1 for a,b in zip(v,w) if a!=b) if diff==1: cube_edges.append((i,j)) len(cube_edges) # should be 12

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] 12 [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>analysis to=python code<|message|>import networkx as nx from sympy import symbols, simplify

Build cube graph: 8 vertices, edges between vertices differing in exactly one coordinate

cube = nx.Graph() for i in range(8): cube.add_node(i)

add edges

coords = [(x,y,z) for x in (0,1) for y in (0,1) for z in (0,1)] for i,v in enumerate(coords): for j,w in enumerate(coords): if i<j: diff = sum(1 for a,b in zip(v,w) if a!=b) if diff==1: cube.add_edge(i,j)

len(cube.nodes()), len(cube.edges())

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'networkx' [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>analysis to=python code<|message|># Let's implement backtracking for total proper edge colorings of cube graph with 12 colors.

edges = [(0,1),(2,3),(4,5),(6,7), # edges along x direction? Actually we need all edges (0,2),(1,3),(4,6),(5,7), (0,4),(1,5),(2,6),(3,7)] len(edges)

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] 12 [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>analysis to=python code<|message|># Let's compute adjacency list for line graph of cube edges = [(0,1),(2,3),(4,5),(6,7), (0,2),(1,3),(4,6),(5,7), (0,4),(1,5),(2,6),(3,7)] n_edges = len(edges)

Build adjacency list: edges share a vertex

adj = [[] for _ in range(n_edges)] for i,(u1,v1) in enumerate(edges): for j,(u2,v2) in enumerate(edges): if i<j: # share a vertex? if u1==u2 or u1==v2 or v1==u2 or v1==v2: adj[i].append(j) adj[j].append(i)

Check adjacency degrees

degrees = [len(adj[i]) for i in range(n_edges)] degrees, sum(degrees)/n_edges

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] ([4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4], 4.0) [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>analysis to=python code<|message|>from sympy import Graph g = Graph() for i in range(12): g.add_node(i) for (i,j) in edges: g.add_edge(i,j)

poly = g.chromatic_polynomial() poly

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] ImportError: cannot import name 'Graph' from 'sympy' (/Users/imds/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/sympy/__init__.py) [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>analysis to=python code<|message|>from functools import lru_cache

Build line graph adjacency list for cube edges

edges = [(0,1),(2,3),(4,5),(6,7), (0,2),(1,3),(4,6),(5,7), (0,4),(1,5),(2,6),(3,7)] vertices = set(range(12))

Represent graph as frozenset of vertices and frozenset of edges (tuples sorted)

def canonical_edges(edges): return frozenset(tuple(sorted(e)) for e in edges)

@lru_cache(maxsize=None) def chromatic_count(vertices_frozenset, edges_frozenset, k): vertices = set(vertices_frozenset) edges = set(edges_frozenset) if not edges: return k**len(vertices) # pick an edge e = next(iter(edges)) u,v = e # count for graph with edge removed edges_removed = frozenset(edges - {e}) count1 = chromatic_count(vertices_frozenset, edges_removed, k)

# contraction: merge u and v into w
w = min(u,v)  # new vertex label
# mapping: u->w, v->w, others unchanged
mapping = {}
for x in vertices:
    if x==u or x==v:
        mapping[x] = w
    else:
        mapping[x] = x
new_vertices_set = set(vertices - {u,v}) | {w}
# build new edges
new_edges_set = set()
for a,b in edges:
    if (a==u and b==v) or (a==v and b==u):
        # skip the edge being contracted
        continue
    new_a = mapping[a]
    new_b = mapping[b]
    if new_a != new_b:
        new_edges_set.add(tuple(sorted((new_a,new_b))))
# remove self-loops automatically by checking new_a != new_b
count2 = chromatic_count(frozenset(new_vertices_set), frozenset(new_edges_set), k)
return count1 - count2

Test on simple graphs

def test_simple(): # K2: vertices 0,1 edges {(0,1)} v = frozenset({0,1}) e = frozenset({(0,1)}) print("K2 P(12) =", chromatic_count(v,e,12)) # Should be 132 # K3: vertices 0,1,2 edges {(0,1),(1,2),(0,2)} v3 = frozenset({0,1,2}) e3 = frozenset({(0,1),(1,2),(0,2)}) print("K3 P(12) =", chromatic_count(v3,e3,12)) # Should be 1320

test_simple()

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] K2 P(12) = 132 K3 P(12) = 1320 None [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>commentary to=python<|channel|>analysis code<|message|># Build line graph adjacency list for cube edges edges = [(0,1),(2,3),(4,5),(6,7), (0,2),(1,3),(4,6),(5,7), (0,4),(1,5),(2,6),(3,7)] vertices = set(range(12))

Build graph representation for chromatic_count

v_frozenset = frozenset(vertices) e_frozenset = frozenset(tuple(sorted(e)) for e in edges)

Compute chromatic polynomial value at k=12

count = chromatic_count(v_frozenset, e_frozenset, 12) print(count)

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] 3152709153792 None [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>analysis to=python code<|message|># Let's implement backtracking for injective proper colorings edges = [(0,1),(2,3),(4,5),(6,7), (0,2),(1,3),(4,6),(5,7), (0,4),(1,5),(2,6),(3,7)] n_edges = len(edges)

adjacency list for edges

adj = [[] for _ in range(n_edges)] for i,(u1,v1) in enumerate(edges): for j,(u2,v2) in enumerate(edges): if i<j: # share a vertex? if u1==u2 or u1==v2 or v1==u2 or v1==v2: adj[i].append(j) adj[j].append(i)

We'll assign colors to edges in order 0..11

def count_injective(): # assignment array of length n_edges, -1 if unassigned assign = [-1]*n_edges used_mask = 0 # bitmask of colors used total = 0

def backtrack(idx):
    nonlocal total, assign, used_mask
    if idx == n_edges:
        total += 1
        return
    # choose next edge index to assign: we can use idx order
    i = idx
    # compute forbidden colors from already assigned neighbors
    forbidden = set()
    for nb in adj[i]:
        if assign[nb] != -1:
            forbidden.add(assign[nb])
    # iterate over colors 0..11 not used and not forbidden
    for color in range(12):
        if (used_mask >> color) & 1:
            continue
        if color in forbidden:
            continue
        # assign
        assign[i] = color
        used_mask |= (1 << color)
        backtrack(idx+1)
        # unassign
        used_mask &= ~(1 << color)
        assign[i] = -1

backtrack(0)
return total

print("Counting injective colorings...") res = count_injective() print(res)

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] Counting injective colorings... 479001600 None [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

<|channel|>analysis to=python code<|message|>import math num = 479001600 den = 3152709153792 g = math.gcd(num, den) num_red = num // g den_red = den // g g, num_red, den_red

Tool Output
[PYTHON OUTPUT] (2737152, 175, 1151821) [/PYTHON OUTPUT]
Reasoning Process

[THOUGHT] The probability that all 12 edges are colored with pairwise distinct colors is the ratio of the number of injective proper colorings to the total number of proper colorings.
We computed:

  • Injective proper colorings = 479 001 600 (which equals 12!12!).
  • Total proper colorings with 12 colors = 3 152 709 153 792.

Reducing the fraction 4790016003152709153792\frac{479001600}{3152709153792} gives

1751151821.\frac{175}{1151821}.

Thus p=1151821p = 1151821 and q=175q = 175.
The required sum is p+q=1151821+175=1151996p+q = 1151821 + 175 = \boxed{1151996}.

Final Model Output
1151996

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K-EXAONE-236B-A23B
75,505
Solar-Open-100B
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Gemini-3-Pro-Preview
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Deepseek-V3.2
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Qwen3-30B-A3B-2507
11,922
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EXAONE-4.0.1-32B (high)
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Claude-Opus-4.5
8,515
HCX-007(high)
7,204
A.X-4.0 (72B)
5,550
Llama-VARCO-8B-Instruct
1,396