HMMT November 2024 U26
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A right rectangular prism of silly powder has dimensions . Jerry the wizard applies 10 bouts of highdroxylation to the box, each of which increases one dimension of the silly powder by 1 and decreases a different dimension of the silly powder by 1 , with every possible choice of dimensions equally likely to be chosen and independent of all previous choices. Compute the expected volume of the silly powder after Jerry's routine.
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