Susan Winslow Has Two Alternative Routes to Travel from Her

question 40

Essay

Susan Winslow has two alternative routes to travel from her home in Olport to her office in Lewisburg.She can travel on Freeway 5 to Freeway 57 or on Freeway 55 to Freeway 91.The time distributions are as follows:
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Do a five-day simulation of each of the two combinations of routes using the random numbers below.Based on this simulation,which routes should Susan take if her objective is to minimize her total travel time?
$$\begin{array} { l l l l l l } \text { Freeway } 5 & 63 & 88 & 55 & 46 & 55 \\\hline \text { Freeway } 57 & 59 & 09 & 57 & 87 & 07 \\\hline \text { Freeway } 55 & 71 & 95 & 83 & 44 & 34 \\\hline \text { Freeway } 91 & 51 & 79 & 09 & 67 & 15\end{array}$$

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Definitions:

Lithosphere

The rigid outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle, directly involved in plate tectonics and continental drift.

Asthenosphere

A region of the upper mantle of the Earth, below the lithosphere, where rocks are relatively soft and can flow slowly.

Oceanic Fracture Zone

Crack or step in elevation of the seafloor that formed as a transform fault along a mid-ocean ridge but is no longer a plate boundary.

Mantle

The thick layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core, constituting most of the Earth's volume and involved in tectonic processes.