In the Sanatorium For Acute Intellectual Malnutrition, a nourishing twelve course Christmas Exam is finally administered to 20 starving statistics orphans who are seated in a circle. Having been deprived to the point of not feeling hungry, each student randomly shoves the exam to the fellow on his right or the one on his left. How many orphans on average will end up without a test?

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In the Sanatorium For Acute Intellectual Malnutrition, a nourishing twelve course Christmas Exam is finally administered to 20 starving statistics orphans who are seated in a circle. Having been deprived to the point of not feeling hungry, each student randomly shoves the exam to the fellow on his right or the one on his left. How many orphans on average will end up without a test?

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