Obtuse triangle from three random points on a circle
Question
Three points are chosen independently and uniformly on the circumference of a circle. What is the probability that the triangle they form has an obtuse angle?
Short answer
. The triangle is obtuse exactly when all three points fit in some semicircle (the centre lies outside it). For random points that probability is , which is for ; right triangles have probability zero.
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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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