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Expected Value, Linearity & Advanced Probability · Challenge problem

Two points are chosen independently and uniformly on a circle of circumference 11. Find the expected length of the shorter of the two arcs between them.

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