406.Overlapping Segments
★★★geometric probabilityCh. 4 — Continuous Distributions and Moments444+ Problems in Probability
Let IID. Draw one segment between and , and another between and . Find the probability that the two segments overlap.
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The segments are disjoint only when both points of one pair are smaller than both points of the other. Count orderings.
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