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HMMT November 2021 E6

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Mario has a deck of seven pairs of matching number cards and two pairs of matching Jokers, for a total of 18 cards. He shuffles the deck, then draws the cards from the top one by one until he holds a pair of matching Jokers. The expected number of complete pairs that Mario holds at the end (including the Jokers) is mn\frac{m}{n}, where m,nm, n are positive integers and gcd⁡(m,n)=1\operatorname{gcd}(m, n)=1. Find 100m+n100 m+n.

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