Question

A home meal delivery business delivers 34.5 pounds of food each day.

Answer 1

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Answer:

  7 times

Step-by-step explanation:

Each meal weighs (24 oz)/(16 oz/lb) = 1.5 lb. The number of meals to be delivered each day is ...

  (34.5 lb/day)/(1.5 lb/meal) = 23 meals/day

If we assume that meals can remain in the car from one day to the next, we only need to compute the total number of loads in 4 days.

  (23 meal/day)(4 days)/(15 meals/load) = 6 2/15 loads/4-days

That is loading the car 6 times is not enough. They need to load the car 7 times in 4 days.

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If we assume that meals cannot remain in the car from one day to the next, then the car must be loaded 2 times per day. That's 8 times in 4 days.

The answer depends on your assumptions about loading the car.