Question

A tractor trailer has maximum capacity of 8,000 pounds. The equipment needed to load

and unload the tractor trailer must travel with the trailer and weighs a combined 1,500
pounds. The trailer will be loaded with x containers, each of which weighs 300 pounds.
What is the largest value of x such that the trailer's capacity is not exceeded?

Answer 1

subtract from the maximum load the 1500 of the loading equipment and you have 6500 pounds of capacity for the containers you divide this by 300 which is what each of the containers weighs gives you 21,666 which tells us that the maximum of containers is 21

8000-1500 = 6500

6500/300 = 21.66

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