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2020 AMC 10A Problem 13

A frog sitting at the point (1, 2) begins a sequence of jumps, where each jump is parallel to one of the coordinate axes and has length 1, 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), and (4,0). What is the probability that the sequence of jumps ends on a vertical side of the square?

\textbf{(A)}\ \frac12\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac 58\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac 23\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ \frac34\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \frac 78


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