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AIME 2016b Problem 13

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Beatrix is going to place six rooks on a 6×66 \times 6 chessboard where both the rows and columns are labeled 11 to 66; the rooks are placed so that no two rooks are in the same row or the same column. The valuevalue of a square is the sum of its row number and column number. The scorescore of an arrangement of rooks is the least value of any occupied square. The average score over all valid configurations is pq\frac{p}{q}, where pp and qq are relatively prime positive integers. Find p+qp+q.

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