Question
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Examples: 1. A business has 13,065 packages to send by ground shipping. Each weigh 14 lbs, but a truck can only hold 14,650 lbs. How many trucks will be needed to ship all of the packages? You are moving into an apartment on the 11'th floor. You have boxes that weigh a total of 10,678 Ibs. The elevator capacity is 475 lbs and you weigh 145 lbs. How many elevator trips do you have to take to move the boxes up to your apartment? A baker sold 11 apple pies for $12.75 a piece. The ingredients cost $54.78. How much profit did she make? 2. 4. In a football game, the Gators score 3 touchdowns (7 points each), 3 field goals (3 points each), and one safety (2 points each). The Buildogs score 4 touchdowns and one field goal. Who won and by how much? 5. You get a package of meat for $9.84. If it cost $1.21 per pound, how many pounds 6. An employee receives $1,350 a week salary for his job. In his first year, he pays did you buy? $980 a month rent, $210 a month in utilities, $335 a month in food, $880 a month in incidentals, and saves the rest. At the end of the year, he wants to buy shares of si at $30 a share. How many shares can he buy? A store received 375 containers of milk to sell for the month. Each container cost $0.65 and is sold for $2.89 a container. The manufacturer agreed to pay $0.15 for each container not sold. If the store sold 345 containers, what is the store's profit? 7. 8. What is the better value? A 16 ounce bottle of Coca-cola for $.75 or a 20 ounce 9. The NCAA basketball tournament starts off with 64 teams. Any team that loses is bottle for $1.00? eliminated from the tournament. How many games must be played to determine the tournament winner?
Explanation / Answer
Total weight of packages =13065*14= 182910 pounds
As given each truck can hold only 14650 lbs.
Therefore the number of trucks will be
= total weight/ weght in each truck
=182910/14650
=12.48
So minimum 15 trucks are needed.
