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HMMT 2003 U35

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A certain lottery has tickets labeled with the numbers 1,2,3,…,10001,2,3, \ldots, 1000. The lottery is run as follows: First, a ticket is drawn at random. If the number on the ticket is odd, the drawing ends; if it is even, another ticket is randomly drawn (without replacement). If this new ticket has an odd number, the drawing ends; if it is even, another ticket is randomly drawn (again without replacement), and so forth, until an odd number is drawn. Then, every person whose ticket number was drawn (at any point in the process) wins a prize. You have ticket number 1000. What is the probability that you get a prize?

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\frac{1}{501}

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