Aisha has a strip of paper with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 written in five cells as shown. She folds the strip so that the cells overlap, forming 5 layers.
Which of the following configurations, from top layer to bottom layer, is it not possible to obtain?
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3, 4, 5, 2, 1
3, 4, 5, 1, 2
3, 2, 1, 4, 5
3, 1, 2, 4, 5
3, 4, 2, 1, 5
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