Timeline for Taking Seats on a Plane
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| Jul 27, 2021 at 15:51 | comment | added | Will Orrick | @Hans I think the OP means this: "at each stage, either the matter gets settled and (conditioned on it getting settled) there is a 50/50 chance it gets settled each way for the last person's seat." The punctuation of the sentence supports this interpretation. I do think the formulation of the first paragraph, "nobody is now in the wrong seat" is confusing, at best. Better to say that nobody still waiting is now displaced from their seat. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 6:43 | comment | added | Hans | -1. "at each stage, either the matter gets settled and there is a 50/50 chance it gets settled each way for the last person's seat." That is just plain wrong. It is not $1/2$ at every stage except the last. | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 7:18 | comment | added | user4951 | For example, 1 can seat in 2. 2 can seat in 3. And 3 can sit in 1. So all 3 are in the wrong seats. But seat 4-100 will all be unoccupied | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 7:18 | comment | added | user4951 | Your answer is correct. I just would like to add that people can still be in the wrong seats. However, all unoccupied seats will have their people from that point on. | |
| Oct 1, 2010 at 17:03 | history | answered | David Lewis | CC BY-SA 2.5 |