Consider a 25×25 grid of city streets. Let S be the points of intersection of the streets, and let P be the set of paths from the bottom left corner to the top right corner of which consist of only walking to the right and up. A point s is chosen uniformly at random from S and then a path p is chosen uniformly at random from P. Over all (s,p) pairs, the probability that the point s is contained in the path p can be expressed as ab where a and b are coprime positive integers. What is the value of a+b?
Details and assumptions
There are 25 streets running in each direction, so S consists of 625 intersections.
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where did you get this question?
It comes from an Olympiad Maths problem
Can I have a link please?
It does not have a link.
It is on paper.
It is on paper.
Ok.
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SOlved.
to ok. if you want to answer this on the site brilliant, you can by making an account but unfortunately, in every account, they have different sets of question basing on the level what you are in. this is such a very easy question.
Share your link, as I cannot create an account.
Well my answer is 49/625