Question: A courier service has offices at three locations: Jamshedpur, Kharagpur and Howrah. Its employees travel by trains from one location to another for pick-up and delivery. It takes 40 minutes for an employee to travel from any railway station to the nearest office (and another 40 minutes for coming back); the paperwork to deliver the parcel at the respective office takes an additional 10 minutes. Assume employees do not waste any time.
Employees have the option to choose from any trains, whose time table is given in table below. Assume all trains travel on time and there is no time gap between arrival and departure of a train. Further, assume that the employees board the trains as soon as it arrives at the station.
An employee, starting from Howrah station, has to deliver one parcel at Kharagpur office and another parcel at Jamshedpur office. His task starts the moment he boards the train at Howrah station, and gets completed immediately after delivering the second parcel.
If the employee boards T201 at Howrah station, he will take 6 hours and 55 minutes in all to complete the task. But if he boards T202 or T204, the total time taken to complete the task will be 6 hour and 20 minutes each. So, the employee can board either T202 or T204.