Solution

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The mass density becomes . Integrate it over the sphere using the spherical polar coordinates and volume element above:
The angular integral is , since . Therefore
The term proportional to contributes zero by reflection across the equatorial plane. Thus the answer is also the volume times the average mass density . The undefined direction at the origin affects a single point and has no effect on this volume integral.

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