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The Avis Company is a car rental company and is located three miles from the Los

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Question

The Avis Company is a car rental company and 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 (a round trip) is 20 minutes. 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 (a round trip) to 2.5 minutes . Is she correct? If your answer is negative, then what will the average traveling time be?

Explanation / Answer

yes she is correct