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The Scotia Metropolitan Area Rapid Transit Service (SMARTS) operates six bus routes (A, B, C, D, E, and F) and 125 buses. The number of buses apportioned to each route is based on the number of passengers riding that route. Table 4-23 shows the daily average ridership on each route.
Table 4-23
Route | A | B | C | D | E | F |
Ridership | 45,300 | 31,070 | 20,490 | 14,160 | 10,260 | 8,720 |
a. Find the standard divisor.
b. Explain what the standard divisor represents in this problem.
c. Find the standard quotas (round your answers to three decimal places).
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