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Some more connected problems in probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

David Pierce Jones
David Pierce Jones*
Affiliation:
A sixth former at Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham, Bucks HP6 5HA
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Frank Budden’s article in the March 1982 Gazette concerned various problems in probability about the formation of triangles from, for example, a glass rod broken into three. That article, and an Oxford Entrance Examination question, set me thinking about the following connected problems. The first is from the 1972 examination.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 67 , Issue 439 , March 1983 , pp. 18 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1983 

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