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Dart landing in the middle ring of a three-ring board

Question

A dartboard is made of three concentric circles with radii 11, 22 and 33 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 11 and radius 22.

Short answer

13\tfrac13. For a uniform point, probabilities are area ratios. The middle ring has area 4π−π=3π4\pi-\pi=3\pi and the whole board has area 9π9\pi, so the probability is 3π9π=13\tfrac{3\pi}{9\pi}=\tfrac13.

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