Second dart forced farther out than the first
Question
Nicole throws two darts at a circular board of radius . The distance of her first dart from the centre is uniformly distributed on . Her second dart always lands farther from the centre than the first, and given it is uniformly distributed (by area) over the part of the board at distance greater than . The probability that the second dart is at distance at least from the centre can be written as in lowest terms with positive integers . Find .
Short answer
. If the event is certain. If , the area ratio gives . Averaging over yields , so .
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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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