Question 251935
The sign on the elevator in a seven-story building states that the maximum weight it can carry is 1500 pounds. As part of your work-study program, you need to move a large shipment of books to the sixth floor. Each box weighs 60 pounds.
Let n represent the number of boxes placed in the elevator. You weigh 185 pounds. Write an expression that represents the total weight in the elevator. Using the expression in part a, write an inequality that can be used to determine the maximum number of boxes that you can place in the elevator at one time and solve.
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Solve for "n":
60n + 185 = 1500
60n = 1315
n = 21.92
Rounding down the maximum number of boxes is 21.
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Cheers,
Stan H.