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Expected Value, Linearity & Advanced Probability · Hard problem

Eight married couples (1616 people) are seated uniformly at random around a round table with 1616 seats. Find the expected number of couples seated next to each other.

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