Question

A delivery truck is transporting boxes of two sizes: large and small. The large boxes weigh 50 pounds each, and the small boxes weigh 35 pounds each. There are 120 boxes in all. If the truck is carrying a total of 5025 pounds in boxes, how many of each type of box is it carrying?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

you have to write a system of equations to solve this

let L = number of large boxes and S = number of small boxes

L + S = 120 since there are 120 boxes and each box must be large or small

then we write an equation for total weight

(weight of large box)(L) + (weight of small box)(S) = total weight

Answer 3

L + S = 120
50L + 35S = 5025

solve by eliminating either L or S

Answer 4

thanks