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AIME 2021a Problem 1

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Zou and Chou are practicing their 100100-meter sprints by running 66 races against each other. Zou wins the first race, and after that, the probability that one of them wins a race is 23\frac23 if they won the previous race but only 13\frac13 if they lost the previous race. The probability that Zou will win exactly 55 of the 66 races is mn\frac mn, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+n.m+n.

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