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HMMT 2018 U34

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The integers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,101,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 are written on a blackboard. Each day, a teacher chooses one of the integers uniformly at random and decreases it by 1 . Let XX be the expected value of the number of days which elapse before there are no longer positive integers on the board. Estimate XX. An estimate of EE earns ⌊20⋅2−∣X−E∣/8⌋\left\lfloor 20 \cdot 2^{-|X-E| / 8}\right\rfloor points.

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