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Problem
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 probability that Amelia’s position when she stops will be greater than
?