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HMMT 2020 C5

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Let SS be a set of intervals defined recursively as follows:

  • Initially, [1,1000][1,1000] is the only interval in SS.
  • If l≠rl \neq r and [l,r]∈S[l, r] \in S, then both [l,⌊l+r2⌋],[⌊l+r2⌋+1,r]∈S\left[l,\left\lfloor\frac{l+r}{2}\right\rfloor\right],\left[\left\lfloor\frac{l+r}{2}\right\rfloor+1, r\right] \in S. (Note that SS can contain intervals such as [1, 1], which contain a single integer.) An integer ii is chosen uniformly at random from the range [1,1000]. What is the expected number of intervals in SS which contain ii ?

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