Avis Company is a car rental company that is located three miles from the Los Angeles airport

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Avis Company is a car rental company that 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 (round- trip) is 20 minutes.
a. How many Avis buses are traveling to and from the airport?
b. 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 from the airport to Avis offices to 2.5 minutes. Is she correct? If your answer is negative, then what will the average traveling time be?

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

ISBN: 978-0078024023

14th edition

Authors: F. Robert Jacobs, Richard Chase

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