Probability puzzle
Two people plan to meet, but they arrive independently at a random time within the next 1 hour.
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Person A’s arrival time is uniformly random in
[0,60]
minutes.
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Person B’s arrival time is uniformly random in
[0,60]
minutes.
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They
meet
if the absolute difference between their arrival times is
at most 15 minutes
(i.e., they are both present within a 15-minute window of each other).
Question: What is the probability that they meet?
(Assume arrival times are continuous and independent.)