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Counting & ProbabilitySuperchallengeExpected Value, Linearity & Advanced Probability

Expected Value, Linearity & Advanced Probability · Superchallenge problem

In an election, candidate AA receives 77 votes and BB receives 44 votes. The 1111 ballots are counted one at a time in uniformly random order. Find the probability that AA is strictly ahead of BB throughout the count.

The answer is a fraction mn\tfrac{m}{n} in lowest terms; find m+nm + n.