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Different Approach

Airport taxi
New answer on Dec 31, 2019
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Anonymous A asked on Dec 30, 2019

Would it have been wrong to take a different approach with calculating the revenues?

The approach I took was, I tried to calculate the total daily revenue through calculating the revenues from the night and day shift separately.

Firstly,

no. passengers per day = (airport passengers) * (percentage of passengers using taxi)/ (days in a year)

= 84M*20%/350

= 48,000 passengers

That means,

daytime shift = (total taxis used in day) * dayfare

= (no. of passengers per day * % of day passengers)/passengers/taxi * dayfare

assuming on average a taxi is shared between 2 passengers

= (48,000* 50%)/2 * 70

= 840,000

Night shift = (total taxis used at night) * dayfare

= (no. of passengers per day * % of night passengers)/passengers/taxi * dayfare

assuming on average a taxi is shared between 2 passengers

= (48,000* 50%)/2 * 80

= 960,000

Total Daily Revenues = 840,000+960,000 =1.8M

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Clara
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replied on Dec 31, 2019
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Hello!

Altough it works, simplicity is also something to be valued (in terms of shortest time to calculations, less options to fall in pitfalls, etc.)

Hence, unless you don´t understand the other one, I would go with it.

Hope it helps! Cheers,

Clara

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Hi,
I confirm it is correct and maybe more intuitive. However, the proposed one is preferable in terms of speed.

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Antonello

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Luca
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replied on Dec 31, 2019
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Hello,

Your approach sounds fine but I think it's more complex than the one proposed in the solution, I would keep the solution proposed.

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Luca

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