Triangle from a fixed loaf and a randomly cut one
Question
You have two bread loaves of lengths and . The length- loaf is cut once at a point chosen uniformly along it. What is the probability that the length- loaf together with the two pieces can serve as the sides of a triangle?
Short answer
. With cut point the sides are , , . The triangle inequalities reduce to and , an interval of length out of .
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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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