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AIME 2003b Problem 13

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A bug starts at a vertex of an equilateral triangle. On each move, it randomly selects one of the two vertices where it is not currently located, and crawls along a side of the triangle to that vertex. Given that the probability that the bug moves to its starting vertex on its tenth move is m/n,m/n, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers, find m+n.m + n.

Dataset text AIME 1983 to 2026. Quoted with source.

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