Question

You have been provided the following data with respect to a carton-picking operation: - Each pallet opening (pallet rack level) is 6.1 feet tall by 4.2 feet wide and holds one single pallet. If you have a storage area with dimensions of 121 feet by 84 feet and want to maximize the number of pallets you can store while utilizing the entire area effectively, how many pallets can you fit?

Answer 1

To maximize the number of pallets in the given storage area of 121 feet by 84 feet, divide the width and length of the storage area by the width and length of each pallet opening respectively. Round down the result for both calculations and take the smaller value to get the maximum number of pallets that can fit.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the number of pallets that can fit in the given storage area, we need to determine the number of pallets that can fit in both the length and width of the area.

The area of the storage space is 121 feet by 84 feet.

Since each pallet opening is 4.2 feet wide and we need to fit them in the width, we divide the width of the storage area (84 feet) by the width of each pallet opening (4.2 feet). This gives us 84/4.2 = 20 pallets.

Similarly, we divide the length of the storage area (121 feet) by the length of each pallet opening (6.1 feet). This gives us 121/6.1 = 19.84 pallets. Since we can't have a fraction of a pallet, we round down to 19 pallets.

The maximum number of pallets that can fit in the storage area is the smaller of the two calculations, so the answer is 19 pallets.