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More Absent-Minded Passengers

Combinatorics 2020-04-09 v1 Probability
Authors: Jacob A. Boswell , Jacob N. Clark , Chip Curtis
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Abstract

We offer a formula for the probability distribution of the number of misseated airplane passengers resulting from the presence of multiple absent-minded passengers, given the number of seats available and the number of absent-minded passengers. This extends the work of Henze and Last on the absent-minded passenger problem.

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@article{arxiv.2004.03662,
  title  = {More Absent-Minded Passengers},
  author = {Jacob A. Boswell and Jacob N. Clark and Chip Curtis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03662},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures

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