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2020 AMC 10AProblem 13P11-15~6 minPrint

A frog sitting at the point (1,2)(1, 2) begins a sequence of jumps, where each jump is parallel to one of the coordinate axes and has length 11 , and the direction of each jump (up, down, right, or left) is chosen independently at random. The sequence ends when the frog reaches a side of the square with vertices (0,0),(0,4),(4,4),(0,0), (0,4), (4,4), and (4,0)(4,0) . What is the probability that the sequence of jumps ends on a vertical side of the square?

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