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Ant Amelia starts on the number line at and crawls in the following manner. For Amelia chooses a time duration and an increment independently and uniformly at random from the interval During the th step of the process, Amelia moves units in the positive direction, using up minutes. If the total elapsed time has exceeded minute during the th step, she stops at the end of that step; otherwise, she continues with the next step, taking at most steps in all. What is the denominator plus the numerator of thethe probability that Amelia’s position when she stops will be greater than ?
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Ant Amelia starts on the number line at 0 and crawls in the following manner. For n=1,2,3, Amelia chooses a time duration t_(n) and an increment x_(n) independently and uniformly at random from the interval (0,1). During the nth step of the process, Amelia moves x_(n) units in the positive direction, using up t_(n) minutes. If the total elapsed time has exceeded 1 minute during the nth step, she stops at the end of that step; otherwise, she continues with the next step, taking at most 3 steps in all. What is the denominator plus the numerator of thethe probability that Amelia’s position when she stops will be greater than 1?
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Ant Amelia starts on the number line at $0$ and crawls in the following manner. For $n=1,2,3,$ Amelia chooses a time duration $t_n$ and an increment $x_n$ independently and uniformly at random from the interval $(0,1).$ During the $n$th step of the process, Amelia moves $x_n$ units in the positive direction, using up $t_n$ minutes. If the total elapsed time has exceeded $1$ minute during the $n$th step, she stops at the end of that step; otherwise, she continues with the next step, taking at most $3$ steps in all. What is the denominator plus the numerator of thethe probability that Amelia’s position when she stops will be greater than $1$?
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