Question

You are a manager with a company where employees frequently travel as part of their job. An employee asks you to approve this expense report.

According to Google Maps, it is 45 miles from your office to Martin’s bank and a one-way trip should take 1 hour.

Monday, July 15                                                        

     Employee Name: Luke Williams

     Purpose of Trip:   Routine System Maintenance, Martin’s Bank, Talladega, AL

                Departed Birmingham Office: 8:00 AM                  Arrived at customer's location: 8:45 AM

                On-site service of customer's system: 5.5 billable hours

                Departed customer's location: 3:30 PM                  Arrived at Birmingham office: 4:00 PM

                Total reimbursable miles: 95

To the nearest 1%, Calculate the error in:

   His reported ROUND TRIP (not one-way) travel time

   His reported ROUND TRIP mileage

Answer 1

His reported ROUND TRIP travel time = 45/0.647

                                                               = 69.55 sec

=> % error = 0.56 %

His reported ROUND TRIP mileage   = 52.33 miles

=> % error = 0.89 %