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A shipping container will be used to transport several 40-kilogram crates across the country by rail. The greatest weight that can be loaded into the container is 23500 kilograms. Other shipments weighing
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A shipping container will be used to transport several 40-kilogram crates across the country by rail. The greatest weight that can be loaded into the container is 23500 kilograms. Other shipments weighing 12100 kilograms have already been loaded into the container. Write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine xx, the number of 40-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the number of 40-kilogram crates to be loaded into the shipping container.

The total weight of these crates can be expressed as 40x kilograms.

The inequality representing the weight limit of the container is:

40x + 12100 ≤ 23500

Now, solve for x:

40x ≤ 23500 − 12100

40x≤11400

x ≤ 11400

40

x ≤ 285

Therefore, the solution to the inequality is

x ≤ 285

it is indicating that a maximum of 285 crates, each weighing 40 kilograms, can be loaded into the shipping container without exceeding the weight limit.

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