One third of the buses from City A to City B stop at City C, while the rest go non-stop to City B. One third of the passengers, in the buses stopping at City C, continue to City B, while the rest alight at City C. All the buses have equal capacity and always start full from City A. What proportion of the passengers going to City B from City A travel by a bus stopping at City C?
Let us assume there are three buses, each carrying 30 passengers.
Now it is given that one-third of the buses from City A to City B stop at City C, while the rest go non-stop to City B. This means that one bus stops at C while two buses go directly to B. This means that $$2\times 30=60$$ passengers directly reach to B.
For the buses that stops at C, One-third of the passengers continue to City B, that is 10 passengers in each bus continue to city B, while the rest alight at City C. Since there is only one bus which stops at city C, this means that $$1\times 20=20$$ passengers alight at C, while $$1\times 10=10$$ passengers travel from city C to city B.
We are asked what proportion of the passengers going to City B from City A travel by a bus stopping at City C. So, in total, we can see the total number of passengers who are travelling to City B is 70, while the number of passengers travelling by the buses that stop at City C is 10.
So, the proportion of the passengers going to City B from City A who travel by a bus stopping at City C = $$\dfrac{10}{70}=\dfrac{1}{7}$$
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