Question

cari owns a horse farm and a horse trailer that can transport up to 8,000 pounds of livestock and tack. she travels with 5 horses whose combined weight is 6,240 pounds. let t represent the average weight of tack her horse. what would be an inequality to determine how much tack each horse could have?

Answer 1

When Cari travels with 5 horses the combined weight is 6,240. The limit of weight is 8,000. 8,000 - 6,240 = 1,760. So the weight of the tack is around 1,760 pounds. When you divide that amount by 5 you get 352, so the amount of tack that each horse can have is 352 pounds.