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AMC10/12
2019


Problem - 4390

Real numbers between 0 and 1, inclusive, are chosen in the following manner. A fair coin is flipped. If it lands heads, then it is flipped again and the chosen number is 0 if the second flip is heads and 1 if the second flip is tails. On the other hand, if the first coin flip is tails, then the number is chosen uniformly at random from the closed interval [0, 1]. Two random numbers x and y are chosen independently in this manner. What is the probability that xy∣>12?


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