A one way, two-lane road is shared by buses and cars. Buses travel at speed 40 mph and carry 20 people. Cars travel at speed 60 mph and carry 2 people. The fraction of vehicles that are buses passing a stationary observer is 0.2. Answer the following questions: (a) From the perspective of a stationary observer, what is the average number of passengers per vehicle? (b) What fraction of the vehicles on an aerial photograph would be buses? (c) If we take a photo of the road, what is the average number of passengers per vehicle based on this photo?
A one way, two-lane road is shared by buses and cars. Buses travel at speed 40 mph and carry 20 people. Cars travel at speed 60 mph and carry 2 people. The fraction of vehicles that are buses passing a stationary observer is 0.2. Answer the following questions: (a) From the perspective of a stationary observer, what is the average number of passengers per vehicle? (b) What fraction of the vehicles on an aerial photograph would be buses? (c) If we take a photo of the road, what is the average number of passengers per vehicle based on this photo?
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A one way, two-lane road is shared by buses and cars. Buses travel at speed 40 mph and carry 20 people. Cars travel at speed 60 mph and carry 2 people. The fraction of vehicles that are buses passing a stationary observer is 0.2. Answer the following questions:
(a) From the perspective of a stationary observer, what is the average number of passengers per vehicle?
(b) What fraction of the vehicles on an aerial photograph would be buses?
(c) If we take a photo of the road, what is the average number of passengers per
vehicle based on this photo?
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