A university surveyed students across three campuses—A, B, and C—about their daily commute to campus. Each student reported using one of four modes of transportation: car, bike, public transit, or walking. The bar chart shows the average one-way commute time, in minutes, for students traveling to each of three campuses (A, B, and C).
Select from the drop-down menus the options that create the statement that most accurately reflects the information provided.
Across the three campuses, the transport type with the greatest range in commute times is __________,This question is typical of GMAT Data Insights questions in that it gives us an opportunity to go wrong by mixing up topics. So, we have to be careful to notice that we are looking for the "transport type" with the greatest range in commute times and not the "campus" with the greatest range in commute times.
To find that transport type, we can begin by eyeballing the graph to eliminate some easy outs. Doing so, we see that we can eliminate Bike, Walking, and Car because their columns are all relatively close in length.
Having done so, we can choose Public Transport without doing any calculations since Public Transport, whose column for Campus C is significantly taller than its column for Campus B, is clearly the type with the greatest range.
For the first dropdown, select
Public Transport.
and that transport type shows a difference of __________ minutes between the shortest and longest average commute times.Public Transport Highest Average: Campus C - 30
Public Transport Lowest Average: Campus B - 18
Public Transport Range: 30 - 18 = 12
For the second dropdown, select
12.
Correct answer: Public Transport,
12