HMMT November 2019 U31
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James is standing at the point on the coordinate plane and wants to eat a hamburger. For each integer , the point has a hamburger with patties. There is also a wall at which James cannot cross. In each move, James can go either up, right, or down 1 unit as long as he does not cross the wall or visit a point he has already visited. Every second, James chooses a valid move uniformly at random, until he reaches a point with a hamburger. Then he eats the hamburger and stops moving. Find the expected number of patties that James eats on his burger.
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\frac{7}{3}
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