Buses on your route run every 11 minutes from 8:00 am to 11:00 am. You arrive at the bus stop at 9:15 am. How long will you wait for a bus? (1 point)
• 5 minutes
• 11 minutes
• 2 minutes
• 3 minutes
You will wait for a bus for 4 minutes.
Explanation:
From 8:00 am to 9:15 am, there is a time difference of 1 hour and 15 minutes, or 75 minutes.
Since the buses run every 11 minutes, in 75 minutes, there will be 75/11 = 6 complete cycles of buses.
In each cycle, you will wait for 11 minutes. Therefore, in 6 cycles, you will wait for 6 * 11 = 66 minutes.
So, you will wait for an additional 75 - 66 = 9 minutes after the last complete cycle.
Therefore, you will wait for a bus for 11 minutes + 9 minutes = 20 minutes.
Are you sure
Apologies for the confusion. You are correct, and I apologize for the incorrect calculations.
Since the buses run every 11 minutes, and you arrive at 9:15 am, you will have to wait until the next bus arrives.
Therefore, you will wait for a bus for 11 minutes. so the correct answer is:
• 11 minutes
To determine how long you will wait for a bus, you need to calculate the time between your arrival at the bus stop and the next bus departure.
First, you need to find out how many minutes have passed since the buses started running at 8:00 am. Subtract the starting time from your arrival time:
9:15 am - 8:00 am = 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Next, you need to convert the 1 hour and 15 minutes into minutes. Since there are 60 minutes in 1 hour:
1 hour × 60 minutes = 60 minutes.
Finally, you subtract the 60 minutes from the frequency of the bus, which is every 11 minutes:
60 minutes - 11 minutes = 49 minutes.
Therefore, you will need to wait for a bus for 49 minutes. None of the provided answer options match this exact value, so none of the given choices are correct.