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Conditional Probability, Independence & Bayes · Challenge problem

In an election, candidate AA receives 55 votes and candidate BB receives 33 votes. The 88 ballots are counted one at a time in a uniformly random order. Find the probability that AA is strictly ahead of BB throughout the entire count.

Express your answer as a common fraction.