A triangle has vertices and .
The probability that a randomly chosen point inside the triangle is closer to vertex than to either vertex or vertex can be written as , for coprime positive integers.
Find .
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An uniformly random chosen point P in the triangle has the following parametrization:
P = { ( x , y ) ∈ R 2 ∣ 5 4 y ≤ x ≤ 1 2 − 5 2 y , 0 ≤ y ≤ 1 0 } .
Point P has to be closer to B than to the other vertices, so P B ≤ P A and P B ≤ P C :
{ ( x − 1 2 ) 2 + y 2 ≤ x 2 + y 2 ( x − 1 2 ) 2 + y 2 ≤ ( x − 8 ) 2 + ( y − 1 0 ) 2 ⟹ ⎩ ⎨ ⎧ x ≥ 6 y ≤ 5 1 ( 2 x + 5 )
The previous result describes a portion that we'll call A of the x y plane:
A = { ( x , y ) ∈ R 2 ∣ x ≥ 6 , y ≤ 5 1 ( 2 x + 5 ) } .
The portion of the region described by P we're interested in is S , such that
S = P ∩ A = S 1 ∪ S 2
where
S 1 = { ( x , y ) ∈ R 2 ∣ 6 ≤ x ≤ 1 2 − 5 2 y , 0 ≤ y ≤ 5 1 7 } ;
S 2 = { ( x , y ) ∈ R 2 ∣ 2 5 ( y − 1 ) ≤ x ≤ 1 2 − 5 2 y , 5 1 7 ≤ y ≤ 5 } .
Than
A r e a ( S ) = A r e a ( S 1 ) + A r e a ( S 2 ) = ∫ 0 5 1 7 ∫ 6 1 2 − 5 2 y d x d y + ∫ 5 1 7 5 ∫ 2 5 ( y − 1 ) 1 2 − 5 2 y d x d y = 5 1 0 9 ;
A r e a ( P ) = 2 1 0 ⋅ 1 2 = 6 0 ;
Eventually
P ( S ) = A r e a ( P ) A r e a ( S ) = 5 ⋅ 6 0 1 0 9 = 3 0 0 1 0 9 = q p ⟹ p + q = 4 0 9