A delivery person uses a service elevator to bring boxes of books up to an office. The delivery person weighs 140 lb and each bo
x of books weighs 40 lb. The maximum capacity of the elevator is 1010 lb. How many boxes of books can the delivery person bring up at one time?
1 answer:
Answer:
21 boxes of books
Step-by-step explanation:
guy= 140 lbs
each box= 40lbs elevator can only weigh up to 1010
i took 1010- 140 and got 870lbs left for the books
then i took 870 divided by 40 (to see how many boxes of books can be put on the elevator) and got 21.75
so 21 boxes could go on the elevator at a time
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