Given that x +y=2a, where a is constant...

Given that `x +y=2a`, where a is constant and that all values of x between 0 and 2a are equally likely, then show that the chance that `xy gt (3)/(4) a ^2, is (1)/(2)`.

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`((1)/(2))`

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