Sujet : The doctor's patients De : qnivq.ragjvfgyr (at) *nospam* ogvagrearg.pbz (David Entwistle) Groupes :rec.puzzles Date : 15. Jun 2025, 20:22:11 Autres entêtes Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID :<102n6h3$12m0l$1@dont-email.me> User-Agent : Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba git@gitlab.gnome.org:GNOME/pan.git)
When the doctor's surgery opens, on Monday morning, there are three people queueing outside. Each person is waiting to see a doctor. They each speak to the receptionist and then take a seat in the waiting area.
The waiting area has five seats arranged in a single row, with seats side- by-side. Initially all seats are unoccupied. Each patients selects a seat at random, with the proviso that they prefer not to sit next to a seat that is already occupied by another patient.
What is the probability that all three patients get a seating position they are happy with i.e. not seated next to another person?