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Three Points in a Square (Posted on 2008-03-17) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Three points are chosen at random inside a square. Each point is chosen by choosing a random x-coordinate and a random y-coordinate.

A triangle is drawn with the three random points as the vertices. What is the probability that the center of the square is inside the triangle?

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Answer | Comment 17 of 18 |
The required probability is 0.25
  Posted by K Sengupta on 2009-01-07 15:16:45
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