An anthropologist studies 8 remote communities, each with a different ceremonial dance performed an average of 3 times per year. She selects 3 communities at random to conduct in-depth ethnographic fieldwork. Let X be the random variable representing the total number of dances observed across the 3 selected communities in one year. What is the expected value of X?

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