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AMC 12 2022b Problem 22

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Ant Amelia starts on the number line at 00 and crawls in the following manner. For n=1,2,3,n=1,2,3, Amelia chooses a time duration tnt_n and an increment xnx_n independently and uniformly at random from the interval (0,1).(0,1). During the nnth step of the process, Amelia moves xnx_n units in the positive direction, using up tnt_n minutes. If the total elapsed time has exceeded 11 minute during the nnth step, she stops at the end of that step; otherwise, she continues with the next step, taking at most 33 steps in all. What is the probability that Amelia's position when she stops will be greater than 11?

(A) 13(B) 12(C) 23(D) 34(E) 56\textbf{(A) }\frac{1}{3} \textbf{(B) }\frac{1}{2} \textbf{(C) }\frac{2}{3} \textbf{(D) }\frac{3}{4} \textbf{(E) }\frac{5}{6}

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