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How do you interpret "averages 1 3-5 passengers"?
It's country of the freedom, so it's weird.
My interpretation: 1 3/5 = 1.6
I'd advise against using the phrase '3/5ths of a person', but I guess you can always count on Americans (and Texans in particular) to make stupid decisions.
Going by that interpretation, 1 + 3/5, all the cars are Driving Miss Daisy.
That is obviously a bad comparison, because there's no way that old hag would ever set foot on a tram.
3 to 5 on average
I think it's a speech thing that got written down, but then also written as the number instead of the word.
Like they use of the word "one" like this:
That's one weird thing to do.
That's a weird thing to do.
So I read that as:
averages 3-5 passengers
averages a 3-5 passengers
averages one 3-5 passengers
averages 1 3-5 passengers
It seems odd that the average would be a range... Or that the range would include 5! I think 1 3/5 = 8/5 is more likely. Especially since they go on to assume 2 passengers, which would be pretty disengenuous if the average was higher than 2.
I can totally follow that logic. 1 and 3/5ths, rounding up to 2 for the next hypothesis. Very plausible explanation.