Official Explanation
1. NextLevel Products charges $10 for orders that travel under 1000 miles and $15 for orders that travel over 1000 miles. For the city listed on the right, mark either $10 or $15 depending on which would be charged for an order shipped to that location.
Explanation
For each city, go back to the mileage chart and the tab providing the distances from the shipping center to each hub. Make sure you properly apply the guidelines provided in the first tab. The closest hub to Nashville is Atlanta, so that is where the shipment will go unless Atlanta is further from the shipping center than Nashville is. Nashville is 554 miles from the shipping center, but Atlanta is 802 miles from the shipping center. Therefore, the shipment would go directly to Nashville and this distance is only 554 miles, well under 1000 miles.
The shipment to Nashville is $10
For Pittsburgh, the shipment will go to Chicago first, as the distance from the shipping center to Pittsburgh is farther than the distance from the shipping center to Chicago. The trip to Chicago is 527 miles and the trip from Chicago to Pittsburgh is 460 miles for a total of 987 miles, a distance just under 1000 miles.
The shipment to Pittsburgh is $10.
For Winnipeg, you must remember that the shipment cannot go directly from the center to Winnipeg ( a distance of only 815 miles). All Canadian shipments go first to the hub that is closest to the final destination. For Winnipeg, that hub is Calgary, so the shipment would first go there—a distance of 1625 miles—and then 828 miles from Calgary to Winnipeg for 2453 miles.
The shipment to Winnipeg is $15.
2. For the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true based on the data provided. Otherwise select No.
Explanation
The most difficult part for all of the prompts in this question is properly interpreting the instructions stated in the NextLevel Shipping guidelines. For orders going to Canada, the instructions are clear: the shipment goes first to either Calgary or Montreal, depending on which is closest geographically to the final destination, and then on to the final destination. However, for orders going to U.S. destinations, there is a caveat that you must read very carefully. Orders go first to the hub that is closest to the final destination unless that final destination is closer to the shipping center than the shipping center is to that hub. To clarify: if the direct distance from the shipping center to the final destination is less than the distance from the shipping center to the hub that is closest to the final destination, the order is sent directly to the final destination.
So to evaluate the first statement, consider a shipment to Nashville, TN. The closest hub to Nashville is Atlanta, so that is where the shipment will go unless Atlanta is further from the shipping center than Nashville is. Nashville is 554 miles from the shipping center, but Atlanta is 802 miles from the shipping center. Therefore, the shipment would go directly to Nashville. Since any shipment to Nashville would go directly from the shipping center, this statement is not true.
The answer for statement 1 is No.
To evaluate the second statement, you are looking for a city that is both far from the closest hub and uses a hub that is far from the shipping center. Since any shipment to Canada must first go to one of the two Canadian hubs, Winnipeg is the clear winner, as the shipment would first go to Calgary—a distance of 1625 miles—and then 828 miles from Calgary to Winnipeg for 2453 miles. None of the other cities would involve shipping distances even close to this, so this statement is true.
The answer for statement 2 is Yes.
To evaluate the third statement, you must use the same process as you did with second prompt, but look for the shortest distance. The given distance, 987 miles, would be the distance for an order going to Pittsburgh, as it would first go to Chicago (527 miles) and then from Chicago to Pittsburgh (460 miles) for the total of 987 miles. However, the trip from the shipping center to Nashville would be considerably shorter. Atlanta is the closest hub to Nashville, but Atlanta is further from the shipping center (802 miles) than Nashville is from the shipping center (554 miles). Therefore the order would be shipped directly to Nashville from the shipping center for a distance of only 554 miles, the shortest of the five cities. As a result, this statement is not true based on the data.
The answer for statement 3 is No.