324.Variance on a Sphere
★★★geometric probabilityCitadel
A point is chosen uniformly at random on the surface of a unit sphere in three dimensions. What is the variance of its x-coordinate?
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The three coordinates are symmetric and their squares always add to one. That alone settles it, with no integration.
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