Two random triangles on six points sharing a corner
Question
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
. The triangles are vertex-disjoint only if Bob picks exactly the three points Alice left out, which is of the equally likely choices. So the answer is .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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