Counting & ProbabilitySuperchallengeExpected Value, Linearity & Advanced Probability
Expected Value, Linearity & Advanced Probability · Superchallenge problem
On a full flight of passengers, the first passenger sits in a uniformly random seat. Each later passenger takes their own assigned seat if free, otherwise a uniformly random free seat. Find the probability that the th passenger sits in their own assigned seat.
The answer is a fraction in lowest terms; find .