Breaking Chocolate Bars

You break a chocolate bar of length 1 into 3 pieces, by independently and randomly choosing two points on the bar. Then you calculate the product of the lengths of these 3 pieces.

If the expected value of this product can be expressed as p q \frac{p}{q} , where p p and q q are coprime positive integers, what is p + q ? p+q?

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