AIME 1990 Problem 9

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A fair coin is to be tossed $10_{}^{}$ times. Let $\frac{i}{j}^{}_{}$ , in lowest terms, be the probability that heads never occur on consecutive tosses. Find $i+j_{}^{}$ .

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