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AIME 1996 Problem 6

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In a five-team tournament, each team plays one game with every other team. Each team has a 50%50\% chance of winning any game it plays. (There are no ties.) Let mn\dfrac{m}{n} be the probability that the tournament will produce neither an undefeated team nor a winless team, where mm and nn are relatively prime integers. Find m+nm+n.

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