Question

A delivery person uses a service elevator to bring boxes of books up to an office. The delivery person weighs 160 lb and each box of books weighs 40 lb. The maximum capacity of the elevator is 790 lb. How many boxes of books can the delivery person bring up at one​ time?
The delivery person can bring up
nothing boxes of books.

Answer 1

Answer:

15

Step-by-step explanation

So, since the weight of the delivery person is 160 lbs... and the weight limit of the elevator is 790 lbs...  Then you could subtract. If you subtract 790 lbs and 160 lbs you get 630 lbs.

So, this means that 630 lbs of boxes can go in the elevator

Since each box weighs 40 lbs, then you could divide the remaining pounds that could go on the elevator and the weight of each box. If you divide 630 lbs and 40 lbs, then you would get 15.75, but you can't carry a 75th of a box. So you in this circumstance, you would round down 15.75 to 15.

In conclusion, that's how I got my answer of 15