Question

At a supermarket, shopping trolleys are 1 meter long. Your friend works by collecting them and stacking them into an area. Each shopping trolley in the stack adds on 0.25 m. How many trolleys could be stacked in a single line of 10 metres?

Answer 1

If each shopping trolley is 1 meter long, and each trolley in the stack adds 0.25 meters, then the total length of the stack will be equal to the length of each trolley plus the length added by each additional trolley in the stack. This means that the total length of the stack will be equal to 1 + 0.25 = 1.25 meters per trolley.

If the stack has a total length of 10 meters, and each trolley adds 1.25 meters to the stack, we can divide the total length by the length added by each trolley to find the number of trolleys that can be stacked in a single line of 10 meters:

10 / 1.25 = <<10/1.25=8>>8 trolleys

Therefore, if each shopping trolley is 1 meter long and each trolley in the stack adds 0.25 meters, a single line of 10 meters could hold a stack of 8 trolleys.

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