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HMMT November 2022 U2

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The English alphabet, which has 26 letters, is randomly permuted. Let p1p_{1} be the probability that AB,CD\mathrm{AB}, \mathrm{CD}, and EF all appear as contiguous substrings. Let p2p_{2} be the probability that ABC and DEF both appear as contiguous substrings. Compute p1p2\frac{p_{1}}{p_{2}}.

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