At least one of three darts in the bullseye disc
Question
A circular dartboard of radius ft has inner circles of radius ft and ft. Three darts each land at an independent, uniformly random point on the board. What is the probability that at least one dart lands within ft of the centre?
Short answer
. A single dart lands in the inner disc with probability equal to the area ratio . All three miss it with probability , so the answer is .
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- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
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