An idle question...

I've come across the assertion that if scattering centers are randomly
distributed in a plane with desnity (of centers) N and diameter D,
that the mean free path is:

mfp = 1/(ND)

I've been think about this, and I can imagine some complicated
integral approaches which might involve magical cancellation, but I
can't think of a simple argument.

Comments?

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