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AIME 2015a Problem 2

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The nine delegates to the Economic Cooperation Conference include 22 officials from Mexico, 33 officials from Canada, and 44 officials from the United States. During the opening session, three of the delegates fall asleep. Assuming that the three sleepers were determined randomly, the probability that exactly two of the sleepers are from the same country is mn\frac{m}{n}, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+nm+n.

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