Answer: Your Answer is: -8/17
Answer:
1/2 or 50% probability
Step-by-step explanation:
There are just two players, player A and player B. Since it is between this two players, for player A to score first we would have:
AB where player A is the first player to score, we wouldn't have BA since player would not be the first here
Probability = number of favorable outcomes/total number of outcomes
Therefore probability of A being the first player = number of A/total number of players
=1/2 = 0.50
There is therefore a 50% chance of A being the first player
Answer:
7 1/17
Step-by-step explanation:
A figure can be helpful.
The inscribed semicircle has its center at the midpoint of th base. It is tangent to the side of the isosceles triangle, so a radius makes a 90° angle there.
The long side of the isosceles triangle can be found from the Pythagorean theorem to be ...
BC² = BD² +CD²
BC² = 8² +15² = 289
BC = √289 = 17
The radius mentioned (DE) creates right triangles that are similar to ∆BCD. In particular, we have ...
(long side)/(hypotenuse) = DE/BD = CD/BC
DE = BD·CD/BC = 8·15/17
DE = 7 1/17 ≈ 7.059