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Part of 2007 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament

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2007 Guts #17: Redskins Wins and Losses

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6/22/2012
During the regular season, Washington Redskins achieve a record of 1010 wins and 66 losses. Compute the probability that their wins came in three streaks of consecutive wins, assuming that all possible arrangements of wins and losses are equally likely. (For example, the record LLWWWWWLWWLWWWLLLLWWWWWLWWLWWWLL contains three winning streaks, while WWWWWWWLLLLLLWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLWWW has just two.)
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