AIME 2014b Problem 13
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Ten adults enter a room, remove their shoes, and toss their shoes into a pile. Later, a child randomly pairs each left shoe with a right shoe without regard to which shoes belong together. The probability that for every positive integer , no collection of pairs made by the child contains the shoes from exactly of the adults is , where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find
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