HMMT November 2019 H10
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For dessert, Melinda eats a spherical scoop of ice cream with diameter 2 inches. She prefers to eat her ice cream in cube-like shapes, however. She has a special machine which, given a sphere placed in space, cuts it through the planes , and for every integer (not necessarily positive). Melinda centers the scoop of ice cream uniformly at random inside the cube , and then cuts it into pieces using her machine. What is the expected number of pieces she cuts the ice cream into?
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7+\frac{13 \pi}{3}
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