Question 17
Two teams are in a best-two-out-of-three playoff: the teams will play at most $3$ games, and the winner of the playoff is the first team to win $2$ games. The first game is played on Team A’s home field, and the remaining games are played on Team B’s home field. Team A has a $\tfrac23$ chance of winning at home, and its probability of winning when playing away from home is $p.$ Outcomes of the games are independent. The probability that Team A wins the playoff is $\tfrac12.$ Then $p$ can be written in the form $\tfrac12\!\left(m - \sqrt{n}\right),$ where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers. What is $m + n?$