Three ants are sitting at the three corners of an equilateral triangle. Each ant starts randomly picks a direction and starts to move along the edge of the triangle. What is the probability that none of the ants collide?
Solution:
lets assume all three ants are looking towards the center. They will not collide if all of them are moving towards left or towards right. Even if one of the ants starts to move to the other direction there will be a collision. There are the following eight optio
RRR
LLL
RLL
RLR
RRL
LRL
LRR
LLR
The ants will not collide in case of LLL and RRR so the probability of not colliding is:
2/8 = 0.25
The probability of ants colliding is 6/8=0.75
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