Problema Solution

A shipping container will be used to transport several 80-kilogram crates across the country by rail. The greatest weight that can be loaded into the container is 24500 kilograms. Other shipments weighing 8900 kilograms have already been loaded into the container. Write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine x, the number of 80-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container.

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80x + 8900 <= 24500

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x <= 195 crates

The number of 80-kilogram crates that can be loaded into the shipping container is 195 crates at most.