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AIME 2002a Problem 1

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Many states use a sequence of three letters followed by a sequence of three digits as their standard license-plate pattern. Given that each three-letter three-digit arrangement is equally likely, the probability that such a license plate will contain at least one palindrome (a three-letter arrangement or a three-digit arrangement that reads the same left-to-right as it does right-to-left) is mn\dfrac{m}{n}, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+n.m+n.

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