HMMT 2019 U13
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Reimu has 2019 coins , one of which is fake, though they look identical to each other (so each of them is equally likely to be fake). She has a machine that takes any two coins and picks one that is not fake. If both coins are not fake, the machine picks one uniformly at random. For each , she puts and into the machine once, and machine picks . What is the probability that is fake?
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\frac{2^{1009}}{2^{1009}+1009}
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