Question

A shipping container will be used to transport several 40-kilogram crated across the country by rail. The greatest weight that can be loaded into the container is 24500 kg.other shipments waiting 11300 kilograms have already been loaded into the container. right and solved an inequality which can be used to determine x, the number of 40 kg crates that can be loaded into the shipping container.

Answer 1

The greatest load that fits in the container is 24500kg

There are already 11300Kg loaded

Let x indicate the number of 40Kg crates, then 40x symbolized the total weight of the crates loaded.

You can express the inequality as

`11300+40x\leq24500`

From this expression we can calculate the number of crates that can be loaded as follows:

`\begin{gathered} 11300+40x\leq24500 \\ 40x\leq24500-11300 \\ 40x\leq=13200 \\ (40x)/(40)\leq(13200)/(40) \\ x\leq330 \end{gathered}`

You can load up to 330 crates into the container.