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Strike a Chord (..Any Chord) (Posted on 2003-10-09) Difficulty: 4 of 5
What is the probability that a randomly drawn chord will be longer than the radius of the circle?

Prove it.

No Solution Yet Submitted by DJ    
Rating: 4.5263 (19 votes)

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re: answer a ? with a ? | Comment 8 of 51 |
(In reply to answer a ? with a ? by geoffrey)

I think DJ was even cleverer (is that a word?)... and that he asked the problem KNOWING that to answer it, one must make an assumption about how the random number is determined.

(I think so, because I submitted a problem doing exactly that :-)... hopefully, it will come get posted in the next year or so.... :-)
  Posted by SilverKnight on 2003-10-09 17:56:35

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