Sunday, April 15, 2007

I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval system they've got at Pearson

Section B- Problem Solving

1. Liz departs from Montreal at 8:00pm on Saturday to Toronto. The luggage she checks does not accompany her. At 10pm in Toronto she is told that her luggage will arrive at 11pm that night and shipped to her in York the next day by noon. At 5:45pm the next day (Sunday) she receives a telephone call telling her that her luggage has "just" (assume "just" is an undefined variable) arrived in Toronto. The Lester B Pearson International Airport in Toronto is 59.92 Kilometres North East of York. How long will it take for Liz to be reunited with her luggage?

a) 2 hours (assuming light Sunday traffic and an average of 30kms/hour)
b) 24 hours
c) 48 hours
d) "Well probably sometime late Tuesday. You don't have anything important in there do you?"


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Well probably sometime late Tuesday. You don't have anything important in there do you?"

What kind of person packs important things when they travel? Generally people only take the things they DON'T need whenever they have to fly somewhere, because it's so much trouble getting the important things through the baggage retrieval system they've got at Heath.. um.. Pearson..