An elevator has a maximum weight of 3000 pounds. How many 150-pound people can safely ride the eleva

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    An elevator has a maximum weight of 3000 pounds. How many 150-pound people can safely ride the elevator? (Use "p" to represent the number of people)

    Maximum means less than or equal to. We have the inequality:
    150p <= 3000

    To solve this inequality for p, we type it in our search engine and we get:
    p <= 20
     
    math_celebrity, Mar 6, 2021
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