What is the probability that a randomly chosen natural number in the interval is divisible by 3?
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It's intuitive that the probability that a random integer is divisible p should be about p 1 .
However, to get a true probability and avoid issues with infinite sets, we are looking at [ 1 , 9 9 9 9 ] . Every 3rd number will be divisible by 3 ( 3 , 6 , 9 , … , 9 9 9 9 ), so the probability that a randomly chosen integer in this interval is divisibly by 3 is 3 1 .
In general, if the probability that a random integer in [ 1 , n ] is divisible by p is f ( n , p ) , then lim n → ∞ f ( n , p ) = p 1 . In other words, the limiting probability is p 1 .