Solution

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Choose the normal pointing away from the origin, equivalently the outward normal of the first-octant tetrahedron. Parametrize the face by on . Its oriented area element is
Thus the surface integral is
The divergence theorem checks this result: , the tetrahedron's volume is , and each coordinate-plane face has zero flux. The opposite orientation gives ; a signed flux requires an orientation.

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