AIME 2010b Problem 13
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The cards in a deck are numbered . 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 be the probability that Alex and Dylan are on the same team, given that Alex picks one of the cards and , and Dylan picks the other of these two cards. The minimum value of for which can be written as . where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
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