2021 AIME I Problems/Problem 1
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Problem
Zou and Chou are practicing their 100-meter sprints by running 
races against each other. Zou wins the first race, and after that, the probability that one of them wins a race is 
if they won the previous race but only 
if they lost the previous race. The probability that Zou will win exactly 
of the races is 
, where 
and 
are relatively prime positive integers. What is 
?
Solution
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