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A Geometric-Probabilistic problem about the lengths of the segments intersected in straights that randomly cut a triangle

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Abstract

If a line cuts randomly two sides of a triangle, the length of the segment determined by the points of intersection is also random. The object of this study, applied to a particular case, is to calculate the probability that the length of such segment is greater than a certain value.

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@article{arxiv.1602.03005,
  title  = {A Geometric-Probabilistic problem about the lengths of the segments intersected in straights that randomly cut a triangle},
  author = {Jesús Álvarez Lobo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03005},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures