Safety regulations require that the time between airplane takeoffs (on the same runway) will be at least 2 minutes. When taking off, the run time of an airplane on the runway is 48 seconds. Planes are on average waiting 5 minutes and 30 seconds for takeoff. On average there are 16 planes taking off per hour. How many planes are either on the runway or waiting to take off?

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Safety regulations require that the time between airplane takeoffs (on the same runway) will be at least 2 minutes. When taking off, the run time of an airplane on the runway is 48 seconds. Planes are on average waiting 5 minutes and 30 seconds for takeoff. On average there are 16 planes taking off per hour. How many planes are either on the runway or waiting to take off?

Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

 
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