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= Solution

Every conditional output distribution is a permutation of $q$. Since <Shannon entropy> is invariant under a permutation, its value is the same for every input symbol. Thus, for any input distribution,
$$
\boxed{H(Y\mid X)=\sum_xp(x)H(Y\mid X=x)=H(q)=-\sum_{j=1}^3q_j\log_2q_j.}
$$
All <Shannon entropies> in this solution are in bits. A different fixed logarithm base changes every entropy and capacity by the same constant factor.

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