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Author: Steve Risberg
Description: Geometry, difficulty level 2. A point is randomly selected from within the rectangle having vertices at (0,0), (2,0), (2,3) and (0,3). What's the probability that the x-coordinate of the point will be less than the y-coordinate?
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