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HMMT November 2017 E10

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Five equally skilled tennis players named Allen, Bob, Catheryn, David, and Evan play in a round robin tournament, such that each pair of people play exactly once, and there are no ties. In each of the ten games, the two players both have a 50%50 \% chance of winning, and the results of the games are independent. Compute the probability that there exist four distinct players P1,P2,P3,P4P_{1}, P_{2}, P_{3}, P_{4} such that PiP_{i} beats Pi+1P_{i+1} for i=1,2,3,4i=1,2,3,4. (We denote P5=P1P_{5}=P_{1} ).

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\frac{49}{64}

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