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HMMT November 2020 U9

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A fair coin is flipped eight times in a row. Let pp be the probability that there is exactly one pair of consecutive flips that are both heads and exactly one pair of consecutive flips that are both tails. If p=abp=\frac{a}{b}, where a,ba, b are relatively prime positive integers, compute 100a+b100 a+b.

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