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2019 AMC 10AProblem 22P21-25~6 minPrint

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][0,1] . Two random numbers xx and yy are chosen independently in this manner. What is the probability that xy>12|x-y| > \tfrac{1}{2} ?

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