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A15 B20
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2021 LMT Spring Division A Problem 15 / Division B Problem 20
Source:
10/22/2021
Andy and Eddie play a game in which they continuously flip a fair coin. They stop flipping when either they flip tails, heads, and tails consecutively in that order, or they flip three tails in a row. Then, if there has been an odd number of flips, Andy wins, and otherwise Eddie wins. Given that the probability that Andy wins is
m
n
\frac{m}{n}
n
m
ā
, where
m
m
m
and
n
n
n
are relatively prime positive integers, find
m
+
n
m+n
m
+
n
.Proposed by Anderw Zhao and Zachary Perry