HMMT November 2019 U8
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There are 36 students at the Multiples Obfuscation Program, including a singleton, a pair of identical twins, a set of identical triplets, a set of identical quadruplets, and so on, up to a set of identical octuplets. Two students look the same if and only if they are from the same identical multiple. Nithya the teaching assistant encounters a random student in the morning and a random student in the afternoon (both chosen uniformly and independently), and the two look the same. What is the probability that they are actually the same person?
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\frac{3}{17}
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