Question

Mitchel owns a livestock trailer that can hold a maximum of 5,000 pounds. The average weight of each goat is 90 pounds, and the average weight of each calf is 360 pounds. Mitchel would like to know how many goats and calves he can transport in a single trip.

Answer 1

Answer:

The number of cows and calves Mitchel can transport is determined by the inequity $90g+360c \leq 5000$

Step-by-step explanation:

Let $g$ be the number of goats, and $c$ be the number of cows. If Mitchel's livestock trailer can only hold maximum of 5000 pounds. then we have the inequality

$90g+360c \leq 5000$ (this says that the weight of the goats and the calves cannot exceed 500 pounds.)

Therefore, this inequality determines the number of goats and calves Mitchel can take in a single trip.