2024 SSMO Speed Round Problems/Problem 6

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Problem

There are $4$ people and $4$ houses. Each person independently randomly chooses a house to live in. The expected number of inhabited houses can be expressed as $\frac{m}{n}$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m+n$.

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