402.The Broken Stick
★★★geometric probabilityCh. 4 — Continuous Distributions and Moments444+ Problems in Probability
A 1-meter stick is broken at two points chosen uniformly at random along its length. What is the probability that the three pieces can form a triangle?
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A triangle forms iff no piece is longer than . Draw the region in the square of break points.
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