A problem in Geometrical Probability

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Langford, Eric
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1970
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In 1955, Frank Hawthorne proposed the following problem in the A merican Mathematical Monthly [1]: If three points are selected at random in a rectangle A X 2A, what is the probability that the triangle so determined is obtuse?
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Mathematics Magazine, Nov. - Dec. 1970
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