Question

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A 2 by 2003 rectangle consists of unit squares as shown below. The middle unit square of each row is shaded. If a rectangle from the figure is chosen at random, what is the probability that the rectangle does not include a shaded square? Express your answer as a common fraction.

Answer 1

help him or her @luckycoins888

Answer 2

help

Answer 3

1/3

Answer 4

Are you sure?

Answer 5

How did you get that

Answer 6

@annafrid 1/3 i right

Answer 7

OK

Answer 8

It is wrong though.

Answer 9

PLEASE HELP

Answer 10

i think its 2/3

Answer 11

since it says there is a figure, could you include it please @annafrid ?

Answer 12

we need to figure out how many rectangles can be drawn in the figure, and how many of them overlap the shaded region
so we need a pattern for how many rectangles are in