Point in a triangle making a small sub-triangle
Question
A point is picked uniformly at random inside triangle . Joining to the three vertices creates triangles , and . What is the probability that at least one of these three has area at most a quarter of the area of ?
Short answer
. Work with the complement: every sub-triangle exceeds a quarter of the area. Each such condition keeps more than a quarter of the height from one side, and together they cut out a central triangle similar to with scale , so area fraction .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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