Question

A shuttle bus makes 4 round-trips between two shopping centers each day.The bus holds 24 people.If the bus is full on each one-way trip,how many passengers are carried by the bus each day?

Answer 1

24 x 4=  96 passengers in total a day

Answer 2

The bus carrie 192 passengers each day

Explanation:

The shuttle bus makes 4 round-trips. with 24 people each way

We consider that each round-trip is 2 ways because It departs from shopping A to shopping B ( thats one trip) and then came back to Shopping A, this is another trip.

So, to get the number of passengers that the bus carried each day we must multipled 4 round-trips x 2 ways x 24 passengers.

P=4 x 2 x 24=192