Question 13
The $52$ cards in a deck are numbered $1,$ $2,$ $\ldots,$ $52.$ Alex, Blair, Corey, and Dylan each picks a card from the deck without replacement and with each card being equally likely to be picked. The two persons with lower numbered cards form a team, and the two persons with higher numbered cards form another team. Let $p(a)$ be the probability that Alex and Dylan are on the same team, given that Alex picks one of the cards $a$ and $a + 9,$ and Dylan picks the other of these two cards. The minimum value of $p(a)$ for which $p(a) \ge \frac{1}{2}$ can be written as $\frac{m}{n},$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n.$