398.Origin in the Middle
★★★geometric probabilityCh. 4 — Continuous Distributions and Moments444+ Problems in Probability
Two points are selected uniformly at random from . What is the probability that the origin lies between them?
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The origin is between them iff one point is negative and the other positive.
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