Putnam 2024 A5
- Session A
Consider a circle with radius 9 and center at the origin , and a disc with radius 1 and center at , where . Two points and are chosen independently and uniformly at random on . Which value(s) of minimize the probability that the chord intersects ?
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Solutions
Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng
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