Question

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 x x, the number of 40-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping containe

Answer 1

To determine the number of 40-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container, an inequality can be written and solved. The maximum number of crates is 285.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the number of 40-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container, we need to subtract the weight of the other shipments already loaded from the greatest weight that can be loaded into the container. The inequality can be written as:

40x + 12100 <= 23500

Where x represents the number of 40-kilogram crates. To solve for x, we can subtract 12100 from both sides of the inequality:

40x <= 11400

Dividing both sides of the inequality by 40, we get:

x <= 285

Therefore, the maximum number of 40-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container is 285.