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AIME 2010b Problem 13

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The 5252 cards in a deck are numbered 1,2,⋯ ,521, 2, \cdots, 52. Alex, Blair, Corey, and Dylan each picks a card from the deck without replacement and with each card being equally likely to be picked, The two persons with lower numbered cards form a team, and the two persons with higher numbered cards form another team. Let p(a)p(a) be the probability that Alex and Dylan are on the same team, given that Alex picks one of the cards aa and a+9a+9, and Dylan picks the other of these two cards. The minimum value of p(a)p(a) for which p(a)≥12p(a)\ge\frac{1}{2} can be written as mn\frac{m}{n}. where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+nm+n.

Dataset text AIME 1983 to 2026. Quoted with source.

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