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HMMT 2022 U7

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A jar contains 8 red balls and 2 blue balls. Every minute, a ball is randomly removed. The probability that there exists a time during this process where there are more blue balls than red balls in the jar can be expressed as ab\frac{a}{b} for relatively prime integers aa and bb. Compute 100a+b100 a+b.

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