AMC10/12
2019


Problem - 4390

Real numbers between $0$ and $1$, inclusive, are chosen in the following manner. A fair coin is flipped. If it lands heads, then it is flipped again and the chosen number is $0$ if the second flip is heads and $1$ if the second flip is tails. On the other hand, if the first coin flip is tails, then the number is chosen uniformly at random from the closed interval $[0,\ 1]$. Two random numbers $x$ and $y$ are chosen independently in this manner. What is the probability that $\mid x-y\mid > \frac{1}{2}$?


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