HMMT 2007 F4
- General 2
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Three brothers Abel, Banach, and Gauss each have portable music players that can share music with each other. Initially, Abel has 9 songs, Banach has 6 songs, and Gauss has 3 songs, and none of these songs are the same. One day, Abel flips a coin to randomly choose one of his brothers and he adds all of that brother's songs to his collection. The next day, Banach flips a coin to randomly choose one of his brothers and he adds all of that brother's collection of songs to his collection. Finally, each brother randomly plays a song from his collection with each song in his collection being equally likely to be chosen. What is the probability that they all play the same song?
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\frac{1}{288}
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