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A camper can have a total weight of 7,400 pounds including cargo
and passengers. Without water in its water tanks, the camper cargo
weighs 7,155 pounds. If water weighs 8.3 pounds per gallon, how
many gallons of water can be loaded into the tanks before the
camper exceeds its total weight capacity?
9.5 gallons of water.
ReplyDelete7400-7155=245 divided by 8.3=9.5
Robert Haberland
7400-7155=245/8.3=29.518072-brandon
ReplyDeleteHi Mr. Alfred its Meg Maguire. I don't know if this is correct.
ReplyDeleteYou can load 29.5 gallons of water into the tank.
I solved that by subtracting 7400-7155=245. That was the amount of pounds left available for water. Then I did 245 divided by 8.3 pounds per gallon and that equaled 29.5 gallons in all.