What is the probability that a point chosen randomly from inside an equilateral triangle is closer to the center than to any of the edges? My friend gave me this puzzle:

What is the probability that a point chosen at random from the interior of an equilateral triangle is closer to the center than any of its edges? 


I tried to draw the picture and I drew a smaller (concentric) equilateral triangle with half the side length. Since area is proportional to the square of side length, this would mean that the smaller triangle had $1/4$ the area of the bigger one. My friend tells me this is wrong. He says I am allowed to use calculus but I don't understand how geometry would need calculus. Thanks for help.

I am just passing by here. Perhaps the idea is to have something elegant, but this is just straightforward: an integral in polar coordinates with the help of Mathematica. I reuse the picture of the solution of Zubin. Let J be the midpoint of CD. By symmetry, we can restrict the analysis to CFJ. Without loss of generality, let the length of FJ be $1$. The total area of CFJ is $\sqrt{3}/2$. We need the area above the curve in CFJ. Pick an arbitrary point L on the curve inside CFJ.  Let $\theta$ be the angle between FJ and FL. Some trigonometry gives us that the length of FL is $x = (1+ \cos\theta)^{-1}$. (It helps to draw the straight line that extends FL and meets CJ at some point K and note that the length of FK is $1/\cos \theta$.) So, the area above the curve is the integral of $(1+\cos \theta)^{-2}/2$ from $0$ to $\pi/3$. Using mathematica, the primitive is $((2 + \cos\theta)\sin\theta)/(6(1 + \cos\theta)^2)$. So, the area above the curve is $((2 + \cos(\pi/3))\sin(\pi/3))/(6(1 + \cos(\pi/3))^2) = 5 \sqrt 3/ 54$ . So, the probability to be above the curve is $(5 \sqrt 3/ 54)/(\sqrt 3/2) = 5/27$.    
This solution generalizes to any regular polygone. We integrate from $0$ to $\pi/n$ instead of from $0$ to $\pi/3$ and the total area of CFJ becomes $\tan(\pi/n)/2$ instead of $\sqrt 3/2$, every thing else stays the same.  
