AIME 2026a Problem 9
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Joanne has a blank fair six-sided die and six stickers each displaying a different integer from to . Joanne rolls the die and then places the sticker labeled on the top face of the die. She then rolls the die again, places the sticker labeled on the top face, and continues this process to place the rest of the stickers in order. If the die ever lands with a sticker already on its top face, the new sticker is placed to cover the old sticker. Let be the conditional probability that at the end of the process exactly one face has been left blank, given that all the even-numbered stickers are visible on faces of the die. Then can be written as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Dataset text AIME 1983 to 2026. Quoted with source.
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