Mr. Fishman used to work in a warehouse in New York. He would fill up pallets of product to be shipped to retail stores around the country. He would then drive the forklift to place the heavy pallets on the industrial scale to determine the weight for the bill of lading and then he would load the pallets onto the shipping trucks. One shipment had a full pallet (10 cartons per level and 8 levels high) mixed with two different products that had the exact same size shipping carton. The different packages were clearly marked, but once they were loaded on the pallet it was almost impossible to distinguish between them. While the cartons were the same size, each carton of Product X weighed 3 pounds while each carton of Product Y weighed 5 pounds.

Required:
How many cartons of each product were on the pallet?

When the pallet was placed on the scale, the reading came back as 325 total pounds. Note that this was including the pallet itself, which weighed 35 pounds.

How many cartons of each product were on the pallet? Create two equations to represent the situation and then solve the system. Show all work. Express your final answer using a complete sentence and appropriate units

Answer:

we have 25 and 55 cartons of each product

Step-by-step explanation:

we have number of carton = 10 x 8 = 80

each level has 10, and leves are 8 high

two types of product packages,

we call them w and x

w + x = 80 ------ equation 1

w has 3 pounds weight

x has 5 pounds weight

3*w +5*x

3w + 5x

total weight = 325

we subtract weight of pallet 35

= 325 - 35 = 290

3w + 5x = 290-------- equation 2

we have two equations

w + x = 80------(1)

3w + 5x = 290-------(2)

from equation 1,

w = 80 - x

put this value above in equation 2

3(80-x) + 5x = 290

240-3x+5x = 290

240+2x = 290

2x = 290-240

2x = 50

divide through by 2

x = 25

put value of x in equation 1

w + 25 = 80

w = 80-25

w = 55

so we have 55 cartons of w and 25 cartons of product x