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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 k<5k<5, no collection of kk pairs made by the child contains the shoes from exactly kk of the adults is mn\frac{m}{n}, where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+n.m+n.

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