Random points associated with rectangles

The study of the distribution and moments of the distance between random points within a rectangle or in two coplanar rectangles is required in a wide variety of fields. Formulae for the distributions and arbitrary moments of the distance between two random points associated with one or two rectangles in various situations are given here explicitly. These explicit formulae will be helpful to those who work in various applied areas for the computations required in their problems.

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