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A stick of length 4 is broken at a uniformly chosen random location. What is the expected length of the longer piece?

A stick of length 4 is broken at a uniformly chosen random location. What is the expected length of the longer piece?
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A stick of length 4 is broken at a uniformly chosen random location. What is the expected length of the longer piece?

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the answer is 3

the stick cant be cut in half or else it would be equl

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