Math Gold Medalist

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2023 AMC 12A 

Problem 17

Flora the frog starts at $0$ on the number line and makes a sequence of jumps to the right. In any one jump, independent of previous jumps, Flora leaps a positive integer distance $m$ with probability $\frac{1}{2^m}$. What is the probability that Flora will eventually land at $10$?

$\textbf{(A) } \frac{5}{512} \qquad \textbf{(B) } \frac{45}{1024} \qquad \textbf{(C) } \frac{127}{1024} \qquad \textbf{(D) } \frac{511}{1024} \qquad \textbf{(E) } \frac{1}{2}$

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