Question

Avis Company is a car rental company that is located three miles from the Los Angeles airport (LAX). Avis is dispatching a bus from its offices to the airport every 2 minutes. The average traveling time (round-trip) is 15 minutes a.How many Avis buses are traveling to and from the airport? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 1 decimal place.) Number of buses b. The branch manager wants to improve the service and suggests dispatching buses every 0.5 minutes. She argues that this will reduce the average traveling time from the airport to Avis offices to 25 minutes. Is she correct? O Yes No It depends on the time of day There is insufficient information to answer this question

Answer 1

Explanation:

A.

Ifthe bus departs after every 2 minutes and takes 15 minutes for a round trip from avis office to airport.

Therefore, total time taken by one bus is (2+15) minutes.

1 day has 24 hours = 24*60 = 1440 minutes.

So, number of busses each day is 1440/17=84.7 busses.

B.

No, she is incorrect in her decision.

If bus departure time is reduced to .5 minutes then ,

• Time taken by each bus ( 15.5 *84.7busses)=1312.85 minutes.
• Total time per day =1440minutes.
• Total time saved = 127.15 minutes.

Therefore, time saved in each round will be 127.15/84.7buses= 1.5 minutes.

So, her calculation that time will be reduced by 2.5 minutes is incorrect.