a delivery person uses a service elevator to bring boxes of books up to an office. the delivery person weighs 160 lb and each bo

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a delivery person uses a service elevator to bring boxes of books up to an office. the delivery person weighs 160 lb and each bo

x of books weighs 50 lb. the maximum capacity of the elevator is 1400 lb. how many boxes can the delivery person bring up at one time?

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Semmy [17] · Answer 1 · 2022-10-03T10:56:16+03:00

He can carry around 6 boxes. How? So add one box of books and himself. You should get 210 lb. Afterwards, do 1,400 lb / 210 lb, since the max capacity of the elevator is 1,400 lb. You will get 6.666 and repeating. It will only be 6 boxes at one time. Do NOT round the decimal. The elevator will not be able to take 7 boxes PLUS himself. Otherwise the elevator will crash and fall. Hope this helped!