Question

Liz is shipping a package to her friend. The maximum weight of a medium flat-rate box is 20 pounds, including the box which weighs 6 ounces. Write and solve an inequality to describe the possible weight in pounds, w, of the contents that Liz will ship to her friend if she must use a medium flat-rate box. Use the drop-down menus to explain your answer.
The weight of the box and the weight of the contents of the box must be Choose... 20 pounds. So the situation can be solved by the inequality w Choose... 19 10/16. The contents of the package can weigh Choose... 19 pounds 10 ounces.

Answer 1

Answer:The answer is maximum 19.625 pounds.

Step-by-step explanation: Given that Liz is shipping a package to her friend with maximum weight of a medium flat-rate box 20 pounds, including the box which weighs 6 ounces.

Let the possible weight of the contents in pounds be 'w' that Liz will ship to her friend if she must use a medium flat-rate box.

Weight of the box = 6 ounces = 6 × 0.0625 pounds = 0.375 pounds.

Therefore, the weight of the contents will be

Thus, Liza can ship the contents weight up to 19.625 ponds.