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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 11 to 66. Joanne rolls the die and then places the sticker labeled 11 on the top face of the die. She then rolls the die again, places the sticker labeled 22 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 pp 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 pp can be written as mn\frac{m}{n}, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+nm+n.

Dataset text AIME 1983 to 2026. Quoted with source.

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