Solution

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For each auxiliary count , the correctly normalized joint expression above is symmetric in . Summing it over preserves that symmetry, so these are exchangeable random variables. Their marginal distributions are therefore identical. Since was generated from a Beta distribution,
The Beta-binomial exchangeable coupling changes the dependence, while leaving both prior distributions unchanged.

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