Solution

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Conditioned on being inside the circle, the point is a uniform random point in a disk of radius . The annulus from to has area . Dividing by the disk's area gives
The radial probability density function is on and integrates to one. Without conditioning, the corresponding annulus probability for a point in the original square is .

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