How many crates of dog food averaging 15 pounds a crate can be loaded onto a truck that can hold a maximum of 3,500 pounds of storage? If c represents the number of crates, how would you write an inequality expressing this situation
To find out how many crates of dog food can be loaded onto the truck, we need to divide the total storage capacity of the truck by the weight of each crate.
Let c be the number of crates. Since each crate weighs 15 pounds, the total weight of all the crates can be represented as 15c.
The inequality expressing this situation is:
15c ≤ 3500
Dividing both sides of the inequality by 15, we get:
c ≤ 233.33
Since the number of crates must be a whole number, we can conclude that a maximum of 233 crates of dog food can be loaded onto the truck.