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Dec 22, 2018
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break the figure into 3 piecesthe first piece is 2x1001 white squares to the left of the shaded squaresthe second piece is the 2 shaded squaresthe third is the 2x1001 white squares to the right of the shaded squaresto pick a rectangle that does not contain the shaded squares we pick two pointsfrom either the first section or the third section and these define our rectanglethere are (10012)=500500 ways to pick 2 points in both sectionsso there are 2500500=1001000 ways to pick the rectangles that contain no shaded squares

 

There are (20032)=2005003 total ways to pick 2 points from the 2003thus P[rectangle contains no shaded square]=10010002005003=100020030.4992

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Dec 22, 2018

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