Question

A truck is carrying 8 cars weighting an average of 4500 pounds each. What is the total weight in tons of the cars on the truck?

Answer 1

the total weights in tons is 18

Explanation:

The computation of the total weights in tons is shown below:

The weight of 8 cars would be

= 4,500 pounds × 8 cars

= 36,000 pounds

Now as we know that 1 ton = 2,000 pounds

So for 8 trucks it would be

= 36,000 pounds ÷ 2,000 pounds

= 18 tons

Hence, the total weights in tons is 18