Question

The Rocky Mountains Retreat rents out its skiing condos during the off season for groups wanting to hold conferences. Attendee ride a bus from the airport together to the retreat. When an attendee arrives, they must first retrieve their luggage from the bus and then proceed to check into the conference. They then go to another table to get a swag bag before heading to the registration desk to get their condo assignment. The table below shows the number of workers at each location and the time it takes to process each attendee. A busload of 45 has arrived and the system is empty.

How long will it take to process all of the attendees?

Answer 1

It will take approximately 1 hour and 18 minutes to process all of the attendees.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the total time it will take to process all attendees, we need to add up the processing times at each location. Let's start with retrieving luggage from the bus, which takes 30 seconds per attendee.

Since there are 45 attendees, the total time spent on this step is 45 * 30 seconds = 1,350 seconds.

The next step is checking into the conference, which takes 1 minute per attendee.

So the total time for this step is 45 * 1 minute = 45 minutes or 2,700 seconds.

Finally, getting the swag bag takes 15 seconds per attendee, giving a total time of 45 * 15 seconds = 675 seconds.

Adding up all these times, the total time to process all attendees is 1,350 seconds + 2,700 seconds + 675 seconds = 4,725 seconds or approximately 1 hour and 18 minutes.