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A tournament among 2021 ranked teams is played over 2020 rounds. In each round, two teams are selected uniformly at random among all remaining teams to play against each other. The better ranked team always wins, and the worse ranked team is eliminated. Let pp be the probability that the second best ranked team is eliminated in the last round. Compute ⌊2021p⌋\lfloor 2021 p \rfloor.
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A tournament among 2021 ranked teams is played over 2020 rounds. In each round, two teams are selected uniformly at random among all remaining teams to play against each other. The better ranked team always wins, and the worse ranked team is eliminated. Let p be the probability that the second best ranked team is eliminated in the last round. Compute ⌊2021p⌋.
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A tournament among 2021 ranked teams is played over 2020 rounds. In each round, two teams are selected uniformly at random among all remaining teams to play against each other. The better ranked team always wins, and the worse ranked team is eliminated. Let $p$ be the probability that the second best ranked team is eliminated in the last round. Compute $\lfloor 2021 p \rfloor$.

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