Right triangle with uniform legs and a wide angle
Question
Build a right triangle whose two legs and have lengths drawn independently from . Let denote the acute angle lying opposite leg . The probability that can be written as with positive integers that are relatively prime. Compute .
Short answer
. Since , the event is . In the unit square this is a triangle with legs and , of area , so and .
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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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