Diane richards has three major routes to take to work. she can tak
1. Diane Richards has three major routes to take to work. She can
take Tennessee Street the entire way, she can take several back
streets to work, or she can use the expressway. The traffic
patterns are very complex, however. Under good conditions,
Tennessee Street is the fastest route. When Tennessee is
congested, one of the other routes is usually preferable. Over
the past two months, Diane has tried each route several times
under different traffic conditions. This information is
summarized in minutes of travel time to work in the following
table:
NO TRAFFIC
CONGESTION
(minutes)
MILD TRAFFIC
CONGESTION
(minutes)
SEVERE
TRAFFIC
CONGESTION
(minutes)
Tennessee Street
15
30
45
Back roads
20
25
35
Expressway
30
30
30
2. In the past 60 days, Diane encountered severe traffic congestion
10 days and mild traffic congestion 20 days. Assume that the
last 60 days are typical of traffic conditions.
(a) Develop a decision table for this decision.
(b) What route should Diane take if she wants to minimize
average drive time?
(c) Diane is about to buy a radio for her car that would tell her
the exact traffic conditions before she started to work each
morning. How much time in minutes on the average would
Diane save by buying the radio?
Paper Requirement:
· Write a paper to answer all the questions, 5 pages minimum.
The cover page and reference page/s are not included in the
page requirement.
· Be sure to show your calculations and explain how you arrived
at your answers.
· The paper should be developed, organized and presented using
APA 7th Edition formatting guidelines.
· Be sure to cite at least three scholarly researched
sources. Acceptable/credible sources include: Academic
journals and books, industry journals, and the class textbook.
· Any calculations and graphs may be done in Excel, and then
transferred to a Word document. All calculations should be
clearly explained as to your assumptions and how you arrived at
your answers.
· The submitted assignment MUST BE a Word Document.