Right triangle with uniform legs: angle above 45 degrees
Question
A right triangle is built whose two legs, and , have independent lengths drawn uniformly from . Let be the acute angle facing leg . What is the probability that exceeds ?
Short answer
. Since , the condition is the same as . The two legs are i.i.d., so by symmetry this happens with probability .
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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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