HMMT November 2017 H9
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New this year at HMNT: the exciting game of baseball! In RNG baseball, a team of infinitely many people play on a square field, with a base at each vertex; in particular, one of the bases is called the home base. Every turn, a new player stands at home base and chooses a number uniformly at random from . Then, the following occurs:
- If , then the player and everyone else currently on the field moves (counterclockwise) around the square by bases. However, if in doing so a player returns to or moves past the home base, he/she leaves the field immediately and the team scores one point.
- If (a strikeout), then the game ends immediately; the team does not score any more points.
What is the expected number of points that a given team will score in this game?
Dataset text NuminaMath olympiads. Quoted with source.
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\frac{409}{125}
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