The Handicapped Coin Duel

Priya and Quinn play a turn-based flipping duel. Priya goes first with a weighted coin that lands heads with probability p p ; Quinn follows with a perfectly fair coin, and they keep alternating. Whoever flips the first heads wins on the spot. It turns out this setup is perfectly balanced — each player wins exactly half the time. What must p p be?

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