How would you solve this triple integral?

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I was given to find the total charge inside a cube, side equal $a$ with one corner at the origin, produced by this charge distribution: $$\rho=\frac{\epsilon_0E_0xyz}{a^4}\exp\left(\frac{-(x+y+z)}{a}\right) \left(6-\frac{x+y+z}{a}\right).$$ Then the total charge inside the cube is: $$Q=\frac{\epsilon_0E_0}{a^4}\int_0^a\int_0^a\int_0^a xyz\exp\left( \frac{-(x+y+z)}{a}\right) \left(6-\frac{x+y+z}{a}\right)dxdydz.$$

Can you help please figure out this integral.Thanks.

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Changing variable to $(x,y,z) = (au,av,aw)$, one has

$$\begin{align}\mathcal{I} &\stackrel{def}{=}\iiint_{[0,a]^3} xyz \exp(-\frac{x+y+z}{a})(6-\frac{x+y+z}{a})dxdydz\\ &= a^6 \iiint_{[0,1]^3} uvw e^{-(u+v+w)}(6 - (u+v+w)) dudvdw \end{align} $$

Expand the integrand as linear combination of monomials in $u,v,w$ multiplied by $e^{-(u+v+w)}$ and then split the integrals, one can rewrite above as $$\frac{\mathcal{I}}{a^6} = 6P_1^3 - 3P_1^2P_2 = 3P_1^2(2P_1 - P_2) \quad\text{ where }\quad P_m = \int_0^1 t^m e^{-t} dt $$ Using an CAS or just integrate by hand, one find $$\left\{ \begin{align} P_1 &= 1-2e^{-1}\\P_2 &= 2 - 5e^{-1} \end{align}\right. \quad\implies\quad Q = (\epsilon_0 E_0 a^2)\frac{\mathcal{I}}{a^6} = (3\epsilon_0 E_0 a^2) e^{-1}(1-2e^{-1})^2 $$