Consider a stick of length L. The stick will be cut at some random point. What is  the probability that the larger piece will be at least m times as large as the smaller piece? (Your answer will be in terms of m.) (It may be helpful to try this with a couple of values of m to get the idea of the general case.)

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Consider a stick of length L. The stick will be cut at some random point. What is 
the probability that the larger piece will be at least m times as large as the smaller piece?
(Your answer will be in terms of m.) (It may be helpful to try this with a couple of values
of m to get the idea of the general case.)

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