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Putnam 2024 A5

  • Session A

Consider a circle Ω\Omega with radius 9 and center at the origin (0,0)(0,0), and a disc Δ\Delta with radius 1 and center at (r,0)(r,0), where 0≤r≤80 \leq r \leq 8. Two points PP and QQ are chosen independently and uniformly at random on Ω\Omega. Which value(s) of rr minimize the probability that the chord PQ‾\overline{PQ} intersects Δ\Delta?

Curated text Kedlaya Putnam archive. Quoted with source.

Solutions

Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng

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