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Advanced Number Theory · Hard problem

Each of five boxes independently receives 00, 11 or 22 balls, each of the three amounts with probability 13\dfrac13. The probability that the five boxes together hold exactly 55 balls is mn\dfrac{m}{n}, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+nm + n.