HMMT 2019 C5
- Combinatorics
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Contessa is taking a random lattice walk in the plane, starting at . (In a random lattice walk, one moves up, down, left, or right 1 unit with equal probability at each step.) If she lands on a point of the form for , she ascends to heaven, but if she lands on a point of the form for , she descends to hell. What is the probability that she ascends to heaven?
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\frac{13}{22}
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