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We're considering asking this question in job interviews just to get a feel for how someone thinks. Many questions like this are on the net and we're getting canned responses, so we want to use a question which wasn't familiar. Before we decide I thought I'd ask ATOT to collectively think through the question because the group is a lot smarter than I am.
To save you all from Googling, accept these as fact...
- The US consumes 400 million gallons of gasoline per day.
- A tanker truck can hold 9,000 gallons of gasoline.
- There are about 130,000 gas stations in the US
- The average gas station can store 20,000 gallons of gas in their underground tanks.
- The average US household consumes 4 gallons of gas per day.
The question would be: at any given time, how much gasoline is being transported? (IOW, not sitting motionless in a storage tank or refining facility.)
How would you try to come up with a ballpark number? There's no right or wrong, it's not a math problem, and you can make all the assumptions you want if they make sense.
To save you all from Googling, accept these as fact...
- The US consumes 400 million gallons of gasoline per day.
- A tanker truck can hold 9,000 gallons of gasoline.
- There are about 130,000 gas stations in the US
- The average gas station can store 20,000 gallons of gas in their underground tanks.
- The average US household consumes 4 gallons of gas per day.
The question would be: at any given time, how much gasoline is being transported? (IOW, not sitting motionless in a storage tank or refining facility.)
How would you try to come up with a ballpark number? There's no right or wrong, it's not a math problem, and you can make all the assumptions you want if they make sense.