A bus company operates four bus routes (A, B, C, and D) and 100 buses. The buses are apportioned among the routes on the basis of average number of daily passengers per route which is given in the following table.
The standard divisor represents
◦ the daily average number of passengers per 100 buses.
◦ the daily average number of passengers per bus.
◦ the number of buses required for 100,000 passengers.
◦ the number of passengers that one bus is able to transport per day.
◦ none of these