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HMMT 2015 C4

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Alice Czarina is bored and is playing a game with a pile of rocks. The pile initially contains 2015 rocks. At each round, if the pile has NN rocks, she removes kk of them, where 1≤k≤N1 \leq k \leq N, with each possible kk having equal probability. Alice Czarina continues until there are no more rocks in the pile. Let pp be the probability that the number of rocks left in the pile after each round is a multiple of 5 . If pp is of the form 5a⋅31b⋅cd5^{a} \cdot 31^{b} \cdot \frac{c}{d}, where a,ba, b are integers and c,dc, d are positive integers relatively prime to 5⋅315 \cdot 31, find a+ba+b.

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