Gwen Stacy and Spiderman are separated on a by grid at lattice points inside , , , and . Spiderman is at , and Gwen is at . Spiderman must get to Gwen. Unfortunately, Electro is at , and Spiderman can either avoid Electro, or if he gets to Electro, he has a chance of passing easily and safely, and chance of barely passing, but if this happens, he gets thrown back to . Gwen cannot move at all, and Spiderman can only move left or down unit at a time (with equal probability).
The probability that Spiderman gets to Gwen is where and are coprime and positive integers. Find .
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*sigh i'll try to explain this, it might fail. and i did not recieve an email.
There are 4C2=6 ways to get from 3,3 to 1,1.
Then 2/3 of that for him getting by, then 2 ways from 1,1 to 0,0, all over 6C3=20, so we get 8/20=2/5.
We also multiply the 6 by 1/9, then 6 ways to get from 2,2 to 0,0 and divide by 20 to get 4/20=1/5.
now, apparently the correct answer is 3/5.... *sigh *frustrated
k ill change this thing. if my answer is wrong again, this problem go bye bye in the trash.