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Expected area on a clock

Source: ICMC 2023 Round 2 P5

March 1, 2023
geometrycombinatoricsICMCcollege contestsexpected valuearea of a triangle

Problem Statement

A clock has an hour, minute, and second hand, all of length 11. Let TT be the triangle formed by the ends of these hands. A time of day is chosen uniformly at random. What is the expected value of the area of TT?
Proposed by Dylan Toh