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Determinants & Inverses · Superchallenge problem

A random 3×33\times3 matrix has each diagonal entry equal to the roll of a fair six-sided die and each off-diagonal entry equal to 00 or 11 with probability 12\tfrac12 each, all nine entries independent. Find the expected value of its determinant.