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Given <math>a, b</math> such that <math>0<a, b<75</math>, what is the probability that <math>|a-b| \leq 30</math>? The graph of this on <math>a</math> and <math>b</math> axis is shown below with the shaded area representing the graph of <math>|a-b| \leq 30</math> and the square representing the possible <math>a</math> and <math>b.</math> | Given <math>a, b</math> such that <math>0<a, b<75</math>, what is the probability that <math>|a-b| \leq 30</math>? The graph of this on <math>a</math> and <math>b</math> axis is shown below with the shaded area representing the graph of <math>|a-b| \leq 30</math> and the square representing the possible <math>a</math> and <math>b.</math> | ||
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Problem 8
Two real numbers and are chosen independently and uniformly at random from the interval . Let and be two points on the plane with . Let and be on the same side of line such that the degree measures of and are and respectively, and and are both right angles. The probability that is equal to , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Solution 1
Noting that and are right angles, we realize that we can draw a semicircle with diameter and points and on the semicircle. Since the radius of the semicircle is , if , then must be less than or equal to .
This simplifies the problem greatly. Since the degree measure of an angle on a circle is simply half the degree measure of its subtended arc, the problem is simply asking:
Given such that , what is the probability that ? The graph of this on and axis is shown below with the shaded area representing the graph of and the square representing the possible and
[asy] draw((0,0)--(6,0),p=black+1.2bp,Arrow(0.15cm)); draw((0,0)--(0,6),p=black+1.2bp,Arrow(0.15cm));
draw((5,0)--(5,5)--(0,5)); filldraw((0,2)--(3,5)--(5,5)--(5,3)--(2,0)--(0,0)--cycle,gray); [/asy]
Through simple geometric probability, we get that .
The answer is
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Solution 2 (Trig Bash)
Put and with on the origin and the triangles on the quadrant. The coordinates of and is , . So = , which we want to be less then . So So we want , which is equivalent to or . The second inequality is impossible so we only consider what the first inequality does to our by box in the plane. This cuts off two isosceles right triangles from opposite corners with side lengths from the by box. Hence the probability is and the answer is
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