Thursday, March 5, 2015

3/5/15

A unit square P has two random points selected on its sides.  Find the probability that the two points are at least 1/2 apart.

Hint: Do casework.  What percentage of the time do the points end up on the same side?  What is the probability then?

Hint 2: You can't use normal Probability formulas here because of infinity.  But there is one useful tool that can handle infinity very easily: geometry.

Level: 4

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