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AIME 2021a Problem 12

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Let A1A2A3…A12A_1A_2A_3\ldots A_{12} be a dodecagon (1212-gon). Three frogs initially sit at A4,A8,A_4,A_8, and A12A_{12}. At the end of each minute, simultaneously, each of the three frogs jumps to one of the two vertices adjacent to its current position, chosen randomly and independently with both choices being equally likely. All three frogs stop jumping as soon as two frogs arrive at the same vertex at the same time. The expected number of minutes until the frogs stop jumping is mn\frac mn, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+nm+n.

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