Question

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A freight elevator has a weight limited of 2 tons. Each crate that is loaded 80 pounds. What is the greatest number of crates that can be loaded onto the elevator?

A. 500

B. 250

C. 25

D. 50

Answer 1

Think of this as a single-variable problem, with the skeleton structure of "y=x", where y and x are both numbers you fill in. To start, what two pieces of info are you given?

Answer 2

2 tons and 80 (each crate)????

Answer 3

and 80 what? what unit?

Answer 4

I don't know sorry!!

Answer 5

Look at your original problem. Right after 80, what does it say?

Answer 6

2 tons??

Answer 7

No, after the number 80, what unit does it use?

Answer 8

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