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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2010 Paper 1 12 e Solution by
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Let be the meeting label. If , the forward-moving object has already crossed while the reverse-moving object has not yet reached it, so the forward object wins the race to . If , the reverse object passed first. If , the required event is exactly the special meeting from part (d).
These disjoint possibilities giveThis includes the endpoints: for the probability is , and for it is , with the initial positions understood in the unwrapped convention.
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