Question 153
For dessert, Melinda eats a spherical scoop of ice cream with diameter $2$ inches. She prefers to eat her ice cream in cube-like shapes, however. She has a special machine which, given a sphere placed in space, cuts it through the planes $x=n$, $y=n$, and $z=n$ for every integer $n$ (not necessarily positive). Melinda centers the scoop of ice cream uniformly at random inside the cube $0 \leq x, y, z \leq 1$, and then cuts it into pieces using her machine. What is the expected number of pieces she cuts the ice cream into?