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Matching head counts with unfair coin

High school · ●●●○○ 50 pts

Jackie and Phil have two fair coins and a third coin that comes up heads with probability 47\frac{4}{7}. Jackie flips the three coins, and then Phil flips the three coins. Let mn\frac{m}{n} be the probability that Jackie gets the same number of heads as Phil, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+nm + n.

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