In front of you are two identical-looking coins. One is a standard fair coin, but the other one is a very special kind of coin, characterized as follows:
You do not know which is which, so you pick up one of them randomly, and then you flip it 5 times.
The probability that you will be able to identify the special coin given 5 flips can be expressed as where and are coprime positive integers. Find .
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