TxO Math Bowl 2024 - Team Contest - Problem 16
Cities , , , , , and are located in the country of Portaland. A one-way magic portal exists in each of the cities , , , and . A portal code shows a portal’s destinations and their corresponding probability. The format of portal codes is Portal : (, , ), which represents that by taking the portal in city , the probability of travelling to cities , , are , , and , respectively. The portal codes of the four portals are as follows:
Portal (, , )
Portal (, , )
Portal (, , )
Portal (, , )
If Mike starts in city and continually takes portals until he reaches a city without a portal, the probability that he ends up in city can be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Compute .
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