Revision question · Vehicle weights and dimensions

Using a rough teaching estimate of about 67 kg per person, how many passengers add approximately one tonne before luggage?

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About 15 passengers give roughly one tonne with the stated assumption. This is only a teaching estimate. Consider actual passengers, luggage and fuel and the vehicle’s permitted gross and axle loads; do not treat the estimate as proof that a real bus is within its legal limits.

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Distinguish a passenger-weight example from a legal limitReviewed guidance summary · Both corrected prompts make the illustrative per-person assumption explicit. The estimate neither changes plated MAM nor proves the actual group’s mass.

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