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Two random triangles on six points sharing a corner

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Six points in space are in general position (no three on a common line). Alice and Bob each choose, independently and uniformly at random, a set of three of these points to form a triangle; their choices may overlap. What is the probability that the two triangles have at least one vertex in common?

Short answer

1920\tfrac{19}{20}. The triangles are vertex-disjoint only if Bob picks exactly the three points Alice left out, which is 11 of the (63)=20\binom63=20 equally likely choices. So the answer is 1−120=19201-\tfrac1{20}=\tfrac{19}{20}.

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