Dart landing in the middle ring of a three-ring board
Question
A dartboard is made of three concentric circles with radii , and feet. A dart hits the board at a uniformly random point. Find the chance that the dart ends up in the middle ring, between radius and radius .
Short answer
. For a uniform point, probabilities are area ratios. The middle ring has area and the whole board has area , so the probability is .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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