HMMT November 2020 T7
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Roger the ant is traveling on a coordinate plane, starting at ( 0,0 ). Every second, he moves from one lattice point to a different lattice point at distance 1, chosen with equal probability. He will continue to move until he reaches some point for which he could have reached more quickly had he taken a different route. For example, if he goes from to to to to , he stops at because he could have gone from to to in only 2 seconds. The expected number of steps Roger takes before he stops can be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Compute .
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