Let $X$ ~ Uniform(0,1) with pdf $f(x)$: <img src="http://www.tri.org.au/se/Uniformpdf01.png"> The joint pdf of the 1st and $n$th order statistics is, say, $g(x_\left(1\right), x_\left(n\right))$: <img src="http://www.tri.org.au/se/OrderstatUniformpdf01.png"> where I am using the `OrderStat` function from the `mathStatica` package for _Mathematica_ to automate the nitty gritties for me (I am one of the authors of the former). ... and with domain of support: <img src="http://www.tri.org.au/se/domainOrderstatUniformpdf01.png"> We seek $P(X_\left(n\right)- X_\left(1\right) > d)$: <img src="http://www.tri.org.au/se/proborderstatsol.png"> All done. ------ Just as a side note, the solution obtained here is different to that of Carlo's posting: <img src="http://www.tri.org.au/se/carloresult.png"> whereas I obtain, for the same parameter values $\frac{8}{9}$ [Checked via Monte Carlo ]