Safety regulations require that the time between airplane takeoffs (on the same runway) will be at least 3 minutes. When taking off, the run time of an airplane on the runway is 33 seconds. Planes are on average waiting 6 minutes and 48 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? Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

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Safety regulations require that the time between airplane takeoffs (on the same runway) will be at least 3 minutes. When taking off, the run time of an airplane on the runway is 33 seconds. Planes are on average waiting 6 minutes and 48 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?

Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

 

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