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Square thinking (Posted on 2003-10-19)

On a regular two dimensional coordinate plane, you have a square with side length 1 unit.

Pick a point within the square at random, and from there travel a random but straight direction .5 units.

What is the probability that you end up still within the square?

No Solution Yet Submitted by Cory Taylor

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Subject	Author	Date
answer	K Sengupta	2008-02-27 04:30:11
My Solution	owl	2005-08-18 23:25:45
My Solution (corrected)	Pablo	2004-01-29 15:25:48
My Solution	Pablo	2004-01-29 12:30:44
guess	Minion123	2003-11-13 00:16:51
re: Solution? (& extensions of the problem)	Yevgen	2003-11-12 08:39:23
Solution?	Prab	2003-11-05 20:44:12
re: Solution using graphical logic	Tristan	2003-10-19 19:29:02
re: solution	Charlie	2003-10-19 19:22:41
Solution using graphical logic	Mag	2003-10-19 16:48:19
solution	Charlie	2003-10-19 13:26:40
humble guess	Dave	2003-10-19 11:40:51

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