document.write( "Question 520034: A 1-inch-diameter coin is thrown on a table covered with a grid of lines two inches apart. What is the probability the coin lands in a square without touching any of the lines of the grid? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "It's 0 because there are an infinite number of ways it could land, and\r\n" );
document.write( "1 out of an infinite number of ways it could land is 0.  Why?\r\n" );
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document.write( "Because it's less than 1/100 because there are more than 100 ways \r\n" );
document.write( "it could land.  And:\r\n" );
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document.write( "it's less than 1/1000 because there are more than 1000 ways \r\n" );
document.write( "it could land.  And:\r\n" );
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document.write( "it's less than 1/1000000 because there are more than 1000000 ways \r\n" );
document.write( "it could land.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "If fact it's less than any positive number period!  So the only \r\n" );
document.write( "number that's less than any positive number that could be a \r\n" );
document.write( "probability is 0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "In other words, even though it's possible, it's practically impossible,\r\n" );
document.write( "so whatever it is, it rounds off to 0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since nothing is absolutely perfect, the probability of anything being\r\n" );
document.write( "exactly perfectly one way is zero.  That doesn't seem so strange when you\r\n" );
document.write( "consider that nothing is absolutely perfect.\r\n" );
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