Answer to the Pop Quiz

So Ben is the only one that got the answer she was looking for, the phone book. Here is my sequence of answers and her probing questions.

Interviewer: How many gas stations in ATL?
Me: Call the city and ask how many business permits for gas stations there are.

Interviewer: What do you do if they're closed?
Me: Go online and look for the national gas station association or a trade group to see if they had a number or the number of stations per population and then calculate it.

Interviewer: What if the internet is down?
Me: Call a gas station and talk to the manager and ask if they know, and since the manager probably wouldn't I'd call BP corporate and ask them.

Interviewer: Good answers, never had anyone say get business permit information, but nobody ever gives the simple answer of looking in the yellow pages.

The moral of the story, if you need to know gas stations in less than 10 minutes look in the phone book (though I think that would take too long).

Another answer I thought of later is that I would ask in the office to see if we already had the data internally.