Question

The deck of a container ship is 1,200 feet long and 300 feet wide. If one container is 30 feet long and 10 feet wide, and containers can be stacked four high, how many containers can the ship carry at a time

Answer 1

Answer: 4800 containers

Explanation:

We can see that along the length, the ship can carry (1200 / 30) = 40 containers and along the width, it can carry (300/10) = 30 containers.

Since the containers can be stacked four high, the number of containers that the ship can carry at a time would be:

= 40 × 30 × 4.

= 4800 containers