Detailed Instructions: In this task, you need to answer the given multiple-choice question on the physics. Classify your answers into 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', and 'e'.
Q: Problem: each day a man meets his wife at the train station after work , and then she drives him home . she always arrives exactly on time to pick him up . one day he catches an earlier train and arrives at the station an hour early . he immediately begins walking home along the same route the wife drives . eventually his wife sees him on her way to the station and drives him the rest of the way home . when they arrive home the man notices that they arrived 16 minutes earlier than usual . how much time did the man spend walking ?
Options: a ) 45 minutes , b ) 50 minutes , c ) 40 minutes , d ) 55 minutes , e ) 52 minutes
A:
e