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 27500 kilograms. Other shipments weighing 9500 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.

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 27500 kilograms. Other shipments weighing 9500 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

Answer: the maximum number of 50-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container is 360 crates.

Explanation:

Let x be the number of 50-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container.

We can write an inequality to represent the maximum weight that can be loaded into the container:

x * 50 + 9500 <= 27500

To solve for x, we can first subtract 9500 from both sides:

x * 50 <= 18000

Then, we can divide both sides by 50 to find the number of crates that can be loaded:

x <= 360

So, the maximum number of 50-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container is 360 crates.