Consider a vial of virus. There are 500 viruses in the test vial. If we incubateit for 1 hour, each pair of virus has a 1 in 10000 chance of merging together and become asuper virus(yet can’t merge anymore.). What is the expected number of super virus after 1 hour of incubation?

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Consider a vial of virus. There are 500 viruses in the test vial. If we incubate
it for 1 hour, each pair of virus has a 1 in 10000 chance of merging together and become a
super virus(yet can’t merge anymore.).

What is the expected number of super virus after 1 hour of incubation?

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