There are 54 drivers in a taxi company

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There are 54 drivers in a taxi company

by SherzodAzamov » Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:05 am
There are 54 drivers and 60 cars in a taxi company. Every day, 15 cars will stay at the repair shop and drivers without cars will take a day off. How many days off will each driver have in 30 days?

A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
E. 9

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Re: There are 54 drivers in a taxi company

by JuniorG » Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:57 pm
9*30/54 = 5?

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To solve this problem, let's first determine how many drivers will have to take a day off each day due to the cars being in repair.

Every day, 15 cars stay at the repair shop, leaving
60−15=45 cars available for driving.

Since there are 54 drivers in total,
54−45=9 drivers will have to take a day off each day.

Now, we need to find out how many days off in total the drivers will have in 30 days.

Since there are 9 drivers taking a day off each day, over 30 days,
9×30=270 days off in total.

To find out how many days off each driver will have on average, we divide the total number of days off (270) by the total number of drivers (54):

270 / 54 = 5

So, each driver will have an average of 5 days off in 30 days.

Therefore, the correct answer is option B: 5.

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