
    Write a function that calculates the total passenger capacity needed to accommodate both peak and off-peak ridership by finding the sum of the highest and lowest passenger counts recorded throughout the day on a bus route. The passenger counts are provided as a list of integers representing the number of passengers at different times during the day.
    

    
def big_sum(nums):
    """
    Write a function that calculates the total passenger capacity needed to accommodate both peak and off-peak ridership by finding the sum of the highest and lowest passenger counts recorded throughout the day on a bus route. The passenger counts are provided as a list of integers representing the number of passengers at different times during the day.
    

    """
def big_sum(nums):
    """
    Write a function that calculates the total passenger capacity needed to accommodate both peak and off-peak ridership by finding the sum of the highest and lowest passenger counts recorded throughout the day on a bus route. The passenger counts are provided as a list of integers representing the number of passengers at different times during the day.
    

    """
    sum = max(nums) + min(nums)
    return sum