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Percentiles and Box Plots · Superchallenge problem

Four different numbers are chosen at random from 1,2,…,101, 2, \ldots, 10 (all (104)\binom{10}{4} choices equally likely). With Q1Q_1 the median of the two smallest and Q3Q_3 the median of the two largest, what is the expected value of the interquartile range?