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Triangle ABC is equilateral with side length 3. A point X is randomly chosen within ABC. What is the probability that X is no more than 1 unit away from vertex A?

 Jul 24, 2019
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Answered here.

https://web2.0calc.com/questions/help_3820

 

Plenty of answers to choose from :D

 

-π KeyLimePi

 Jul 25, 2019
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Here's equilateral triangle ABC and a circle with radius 1 centered on point A:

 

 

The intersecion of the triangle and the circle is the highlighted sector.

 

probability that a randomly chosen point lands in highlighted sector  =  area of sector / area of triangle

 

So we just have to find the area of the sector and the area of the triangle.

 

 

Let's find the area of the sector:

 

area of sectorarea of circle = measure of central angle360 area of sectorπ12 = 60360 area of sector = 60360π12 area of sector = π6

 

 

Now let's find the area of the triangle:

 

area of triangle = 12baseheight area of triangle = 123332 area of triangle = 934

 

 

Now we can find the probability in question.

 

probability=area of sectorarea of triangle probability=area of sector÷area of triangle probability=π6÷934 probability=π6493 probability=4π543 probability=43π162 probability=23π81_

 Jul 25, 2019

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