The Total Number of Passengers Riding a Certain City Bus

question 313

Essay

The total number of passengers riding a certain city bus during the morning shift is 900. If the child's fare is $.15, the adult fare is $.80, and the total revenue from the fares in the morning shift is 460, how many children and how many adults rode the bus during the morning shift?
​
__________ children
​
__________ adults

---

Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the range of variability or spread within a data set, demonstrating the extent to which the values differ from the average.

Snowfall

Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals, accumulating on the ground.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, found by adding all numbers in the set and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Standard Deviation

A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.