16 questions linked to/from Chance of meeting in a bar
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### Lunch Meeting Probability for two person to meet in given 1 hour slot and none would wait more then 15 minute. [closed]

Two friends who have unpredictable lunch hours agree to meet for lunch at their favorite restaurant whenever possible. Neither wishes to eat alone and each dislikes waiting for the other, so they ...
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### Coffee Shop Meeting

$A$ and $B$ decide to meet at a cafe between $5$ p.m. and $6$ p.m. They agree that the person who arrives first at the cafe would wait for exactly $15$ minutes for the other. If each of them arrives ...
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### Probability that friends meet.

Two friends decide to meet between 1PM and 2PM on a given day. There is a condition that whoever arrives first will not wait for the other for more than 15 minutes. What is the probability that they ...
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### Probability of waiting before meeting in case of two uniformly distributed random variables

I have a question that goes like this. Two people, X and Y, decide to meet at a particular time. The probability of them both being late is uniformly distributed between 0 and 60. Person X is always ...
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### Meeting probability generalized: different wait times and number of meetings

I am looking to extend the problem of two people meeting for lunch, for example as found here: Chance of meeting in a bar However, I am trying to generalize this problem in two ways which, in ...
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### Probability Xavier and Yolanda meet for lunch

Xavier and Yolanda plan to meet for lunch between noon and 1 p.m. They arrive independently with uniform distribution on [0, 1]. Yolanda will wait 30 min. for Xavier, but Xavier will only wait 15 min. ...
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### Combined probability distribution function of two uniformly distributed random variable.

I was solving a uniform probability distribution question, the question was : $\\$ probability of meeting two people A and B between 1 PM and 2 PM, if none of them waits more than 15 minutes for the ...
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### two people meeting, uniform distribution

Two people, A and B meet in a bar between 6 pm and 7 pm. They arrive independently of each other, evenly distributed between 6 pm and 7 pm. The first person who arrived, do not wait more than 15 ...
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### Difference between two $U(0,1)$

Problem: Person $X$ and $Y$ are having a meeting. Person $X$ arrives at a meeting somewhere between $9$ and $10$, the arrival time is uniformly distributed. Person $Y$ arrives at a meeting somewhere ...
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### A Problem Involving Two Sentries

Consider two sentries that are patroling on a road that is 2 miles long. They are sent to points chosen independently and at random on the road. I want to find the probability that the sentries will ...
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### Chance of arriving first

I'd like to solve the following homework: A man and a woman agree to meet at a certain location about 8:30 p.m. If the man arrives at a time uniformly distributed between 8:15 and 8:45 and the woman ...
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### Probability of one event happening to two different individuals within a time frame

What is the probability of the same event happening to two (or more) different independent people within a specified time frame? For example, if I wave my hands to my friend, there is a probability ...
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### Airport shuttle and Jimmy

The airport shuttle arrives at the hotel at a random time between 7.30 am and 7.45 am. Jimmy waits at the hotel a random time between 7.30 am and 7.45 am (independently of the shuttle) and he will ...
Suppose there is a line with fixed length $L$, and $x$ is the position of the points on this line ranging from $0$ to $L$, i.e. $0 \leq x \leq L$, then what is the probability distribution of fitting ...