Question

A shipping container will be used to transport several 50-kilogram crates across the country by rail. The greatest weight that can be loaded into the container is 25000 kilograms. Other shipments weighing 11000 kilograms have already been loaded into the container. Write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine xx, the number of 50-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container.

Answer 1

50x + 11000 ≤ 25000

Where x represents the number of crates that can be loaded into the container.

To solve this inequality, we can subtract 11000 from both sides to get:

50x ≤ 14000

Then, we can divide both sides by 50 to get:

x ≤ 280

Therefore, the number of 50-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container is x ≤ 280.

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