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2019 AMC 10BProblem 17P16-20~4 minPrint

A red ball and a green ball are randomly and independently tossed into bins numbered with positive integers so that for each ball, the probability that it is tossed into bin kk is 2k2^{-k} for k=1,2,3,.k=1,2,3,\ldots. What is the probability that the red ball is tossed into a higher-numbered bin than the green ball?

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