193.Average Seven-Digit Palindrome
★★★combinatoricsJane Street
Consider all 7-digit numbers of the form abcdcba, which read the same forwards and backwards. What is the average value of all such numbers?
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Write the number as a weighted sum of its four free digits, then average each digit independently. Note the leading digit cannot be zero.
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