SOLUTION: I need your help with this: When loaded with bricks, a lorry weighs 11600KG (255736 lb). If the bricks weigh 3 times a heavy as the empty lorry, find the weight of the bricks.

Question 484292: I need your help with this:
When loaded with bricks, a lorry weighs 11600KG (255736 lb). If the bricks weigh 3 times a heavy as the empty lorry, find the weight of the bricks.
Answer by mathstutor494(120) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let weight of empty lorry : W Kg
Since bricks weigh 3 times as heavy as the empty lorry, therefore weight of bricks : 3W Kg
Total weight (bricks+lorry) = 3W+W = 4W
4W = 11600Kg
W = 11600/4 = 2900 Kg
Ans : Weight of the bricks = 3W = 3*2900 = 8700Kg

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