The Peachtree Airport in Atlanta serves light aircraft. It has a single runway and one air trafficcontroller to land planes. It takes an airplane 12 minutes to land and clear the runway. Planes arriveat the airport at the rate of four per hour. Calculate the average time it takes a plane to clear the runway once it has notified the airport that it is in the vicinity and wants to land.

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The Peachtree Airport in Atlanta serves light aircraft. It has a single runway and one air traffic
controller to land planes. It takes an airplane 12 minutes to land and clear the runway. Planes arrive
at the airport at the rate of four per hour. Calculate the average time it takes a plane to clear the runway once it has notified the airport
that it is in the vicinity and wants to land.

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