Here the problem is to find the average volume of a rectangular solid inside a unit cube if all the faces are parallel to the coordinate planes.
The average length of each edge
should be about , so the average volume should be about
.
Results of an experiment with trials repeated
times:
0.0371114 | 0.0370923 | 0.0370093 | 0.0369729 | 0.0371264 |
0.0370046 | 0.0370573 | 0.0370841 | 0.0369732 | 0.0371046 |
Consider a rectangular solid of dimensions . The probability of picking such a rectangular solid should be proportional to the volume
of the small rectangular solid. The average volume is