How to divide a polygon into triangles?

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boyakko [2]3 years ago

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Answer:

By cutting shapes into triangles

patriot [66]3 years ago

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The most remarkable and important property of triangles is that any polygon can be split up into triangles simply by drawing diagonals of the polygon. This fact forms the basis for understanding why the interior angles of polygons add up to 180(n-2) degrees.

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1Y, the number of accidents per year at a given intersection, is assumed to have a Poisson distribution. Over the past few years

miss Akunina [59]

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The probability that the intersection will come under the emergency program is 0.1587.

Step-by-step explanation:

Lets divide the problem in months rather than in years, because it is more suitable to divide the period to make a better approximation. If there were 36 accidents in average per year, then there should be 3 accidents per month in average. We can give for the amount of accidents each month a Possion distribution with mean 3 and variance 3.

Since we want to observe what happen in a period of one year, we will use a sample of 12 months and we will take its mean. We need, in average, more than 45/12 = 3.75 accidents per month to confirm that the intersection will come under the emergency program.

For the central Limit theorem, the sample mean will have a distribution Normal with mean 3 and variance 3/12 = 0.25; thus its standard deviation is √0.25 = 1/2.

Lets call the sample mean distribution X. We can standarize X obtaining a standard Normal random variable W with distribution N(0,1).

$W = \frac{X-\mu}{\sigma} = \frac{X-3}{1/2} = 2x-6$

The values of $\phi$ , the cummulative distribution function of W, can be found in the attached file. We are now ready to compute the probability of X being greater than 3.75, or equivalently, the probability than in a given year the amount of accidents is greater than 45, leading the intersection into an emergency program