Question: 2 ( 2 points ) A large retirement village has a total retail employment of 1 2 0 . All 1 6 0 0 of

2(2 points) A large retirement village has a total retail employment of 120. All 1600 of the households in this village consist of two nonworking family members with household income of $20,000. Assuming that shopping and social/recreational trip rates both peak during the same hour (for exposition purposes), village using the trip generation model below:
Number of peak-hour vehicle-based shopping trips per household =0.12+0.09(household size)+0.011(annual household income in thousands of dollars)-0.15(employment in the household's neighborhood, in hundreds)
Number of peak-hour vehicle-based social/recreational trips per household =0.04+0.018(household size)+0.009(annual household income in thousands of dollars)+0.16(number of nonworking household members)
a. Predict the total number of peak-hour trips generated by this village
b. Determine the amount of additional retail employment (in the village) necessary to reduce the total predicted number of peak-hour shopping trips to 200
2 ( 2 points ) A large retirement village has a

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