You carry out a series of steps to paint a walking stick. In the first step, you
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You carry out a series of steps to paint a walking stick. In the first step, you paint half the length of the stick. For each following step, you paint half of the remaining unpainted portion of the stick. After n steps, you choose a point at random on the stick. Find a value of n so that the probability of choosing a point on the painted portion of the stick after the nth step is greater than 99.95%.
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Holt McDougal Larson Geometry
ISBN: 9780547315171
1st Edition
Authors: Ron Larson, Laurie Boswell, Timothy D. Kanold, Lee Stiff
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