Random point in a cylinder lying in its cone
Question
A point is chosen uniformly at random inside a solid upright cylinder of radius and height whose bottom face is centred at the origin. Inside the cylinder sits a cone with the same base and the same height. What is the probability the point lies inside the cone?
Short answer
. For a uniform point the probability is a volume ratio, and a cone has one third the volume of the cylinder with the same base and height: .
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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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