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To solve this we start by breaking it up into it's four shaded areas.
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To solve this we start by breaking it up into it's four shaded areas. Starting with the bottom right one, it splits four squares and hits the vertex on the last one, so we know that the total area of that region in two squares.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 14:58, 23 December 2014

Problem

If a dart is thrown at the $6\times 6$ target, what is the probability that it will hit the shaded area?

[asy] filldraw((2,2)--(4,6)--(6,6)--(6,4)--cycle,blue); filldraw((2,2)--(6,2)--(6,1)--cycle,blue); filldraw((2,2)--(0,0)--(0,1)--cycle,blue); filldraw((2,2)--(0,4)--(0,6)--cycle,blue);  for(int i=0;i<7;++i){ draw((0,i)--(6,i),black); draw((i,0)--(i,6),black); } dot((2,2));dot((0,4));dot((0,6));dot((4,6));dot((6,6)); dot((6,4));dot((6,2));dot((6,1));dot((0,0));dot((0,1));  [/asy]

Solution

To solve this we start by breaking it up into it's four shaded areas. Starting with the bottom right one, it splits four squares and hits the vertex on the last one, so we know that the total area of that region in two squares.

See Also

2006 UNCO Math Contest II (ProblemsAnswer KeyResources)
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First Question
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Problem 2
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