Solution

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An extreme point of a convex set is a point that cannot be written as with in and .
Start with the eight vertices of the unit cube. The constraint removes and retains the other seven. The cutting plane meets the three cube edges incident to the removed vertex at
These are new vertices. No others occur: at a vertex in three dimensions, three linearly independent bounding planes are active, and choosing triples from the six cube faces and the cutting plane yields precisely the listed points. Hence the ten extreme points are

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