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Help me please ! Maths?
Two guy agreed to make a duel between 1 pm - 2 pm. They can arrive anytime between those hours but when someone arrives, he will only wait 5 minutes then he will return back to his home. What is the possibility of a successfull duel ?
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- MathMan TGLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Let's say the arrivals are all exactly on some minute,
and they can be at 1:00 through 1:59. (60 arrival times).
Let's say I am one of the two people.
Let x = my arrival time.
Then the other guy must arrive no earlier than x - 5 (if other guy arrives first)
and no later than x + 5 (if other guy arrives second).
So we have roughly a 10/60 chance = 1/6 of a successful meeting.
Roughly because, if one of the arrivals is in the first 5 minute of the hour
(1:00 to 1:04), then there isn't 5 minutes of buffer before that, but rather
0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.
And if one of them arrives at 1:56 or later, there is only
4, 3, 2, 1 or 0 minutes of buffer after that.
So we have the following summation:
If "my" arrival time is:
1:00 ... 5/60
1:01 ... 6/60
1:02 ... 7/60
1:03 ... 8/60
1:04 ... 9/60
1:05 through 1:54 ... 10/60
1:55 ... 9/60
1:56 ... 8/60
1:57 ... 7/60
1:58 ... 6/60
1:59 ... 5/60
So we have
50 * 10/60 + 2 * (5+6+7+8+9) / 60 all divided by 60 =
570 / 3600 = 0.158333 ← Answer
Confimed by simulation using 1 second resolution:
1 million trials, 158842 successes.