2022 W CHMMC Tiebreaker 1 - match of tennis with probabilities
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March 2, 2024
combinatoricsCHMMC
Problem Statement
Yor and Fiona are playing a match of tennis against each other. The first player to win games wins the match (while the other player loses the match). Yor has currently won games, while Fiona has currently won games. Each game is won by one of the two players: Yor has a probability of to win each game, while Fiona has a probability of to win each game. Then, is the probability Fiona wins the tennis match, for relatively prime integers . Compute .