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HMMT 2018 U15

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Michael picks a random subset of the complex numbers {1,ω,ω2,…,ω2017}\left\{1, \omega, \omega^{2}, \ldots, \omega^{2017}\right\} where ω\omega is a primitive 2018th 2018^{\text {th }} root of unity and all subsets are equally likely to be chosen. If the sum of the elements in his subset is SS, what is the expected value of ∣S∣2|S|^{2} ? (The sum of the elements of the empty set is 0 .)

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\frac{1009}{2}

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