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- From: kavuri@lips.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri )
- Subject: Re: Probably you know the probability ;-)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct15.045308.3552@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Oct14.193802.25129@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Oct15.025957.11871@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:53:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct15.025957.11871@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- > In article <1992Oct14.193802.25129@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> kavuri@lips1.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri ) writes:
- > > I am given a "rod" of fixed length l. I took a hammer and
- > > broke it into three parts.
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- > > (a) what is the probability that they form a triangle ?
- > > (b) what is the probability that they form an isoceles triangle ?
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- > There is not enough information to answer unless you tell us the
- > probability distribution of the lengths of the 3 parts. In real
- > life this would depend in a complicated way on how you broke the
- > rod.
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- All the points on the rod are equally likely to be breakage points.
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- There is a part (c) to this problem that I later added.
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- (c) what is the probability that they form an acute-angled triangle ?
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- Surya Kavuri
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