No. 4:
If you select three sticks, each of random length (between 0 and 1), what is the probability of being able to form an acute triangle with the sticks?
We’re back to three dimensions again for the final question. This solution furthers the solution from problem No. 2, the way that solution No. 3 furthers solution No. 1. Laurent explained his solution this way:
We’ll solve this problem the same way we solved No. 2, but we’ll replace the triangle inequalities with the acute triangle inequalities. As in No. 2, we end up with a three-dimensional volume rather than a two-dimensional area. For simplicity again, we’ll assume that cc is the largest length, which accounts for one-third of all possibilities.
Laurent provided a lovely illustration of this volume:

Our answer will ultimately be three times the area of this shape (this shape only accounts for stick c being longest, and two identical shapes will be generated for stick b being longest and stick a being longest).
Our solution lies in the filled-in parts of that shape. While this lookscomplicated, the curved surface inside that area has the equation c2=a2+b2, which is, conveniently, the equation of a right circular cone!
So we can calculate the volume of the region of interest by subtraction. It’s ⅓ of the volume of the cube minus ¼ of the volume of the cone. (One-third because we’re considering only one out of three scenarios, the one where c is longest. And ¼ because the cone’s base is ¼ of a circle.)
The total probability is three times this volume, because we must account for the remaining identical pieces.
The final answer is 3(1/3−1/4(π/3))=1−π/4or about 0.2146.
So the probability of forming an acute triangle with three randomly chosen lengths is about 21.5 percent.