Question

A car at the junk yard weighed in a 20000 pounds. If the junk yard offers $50 per ton of scrap metal how much money would you make off this car?

Answer 1

We know that 1 ton is the same as 2000 pounds. Then we have:

$\begin{gathered} 2000\rightarrow1 \\ 20000\rightarrow x \end{gathered}$$\begin{gathered} x=\frac{20000}{2000} \\ x=10 \end{gathered}$

Hence the car weighs 10 ton and therefore you would make $500