Question

Renna pushed the button for the elevator to go up, but it would not move. The weight limit for the elevator is 450450450 kilograms, but the current group of passengers weighs a total of 750750750 kilograms. Renna wants to determine how many 707070-kilogram passengers need to get off the elevator. Let ppp represent the number of excess passengers. Write an inequality to determine the number of passengers who need to get off the elevator to meet the weight requirement.

Answer 1

Dear Student:

Given: The weight limit for the elevator is 450 kilograms.

Current group of passengers weighs a total of 750 kilograms.

Let p is the number of passenger to get off the elevator.

Weight of individual person 70 in p

Hence, inequality

750-70p≤450

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