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Point in a triangle making a small sub-triangle

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A point PP is picked uniformly at random inside triangle ABCABC. Joining PP to the three vertices creates triangles ABPABP, BCPBCP and CAPCAP. What is the probability that at least one of these three has area at most a quarter of the area of ABCABC?

Short answer

1516\tfrac{15}{16}. Work with the complement: every sub-triangle exceeds a quarter of the area. Each such condition keeps PP more than a quarter of the height from one side, and together they cut out a central triangle similar to ABCABC with scale 14\tfrac14, so area fraction 116\tfrac1{16}.

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