{ "id": "2004.03662", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-04-07T19:35:41.000Z", "updated": "2020-04-07T19:35:41.000Z", "title": "More Absent-Minded Passengers", "authors": [ "Jacob A. Boswell", "Jacob N. Clark", "Chip Curtis" ], "comment": "6 pages, 2 figures", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.PR" ], "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-04-07T19:35:41.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60C05", "00A08" ], "keywords": [ "probability distribution", "multiple absent-minded passengers", "absent-minded passenger problem", "misseated airplane passengers resulting" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }