Northwest product company uses forklift trucks to transport lumber from the mill to a storage warehouse 0.5 km away. The lift trucks can move three loaded pallets per trip and travel at an average speed of 8 km per hour (allowing for loading, delays and travel). If 850 pallet loads must be moved during each 8- hour shift, how many lift trucks are required?
Solution.
Time taken by truck to move to storage = (60 minutes/8) x 0.5 = 3.75 minutes
Number of pallets moved in a truck per day =
8*60*3 / 3.75 = 384
Number of trucks required = 850/384 = 2.21
Three lift trucks are required.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
If 850 pallet loads must be moved during each 8- hour shift, how many lift trucks are required?
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1 comments:
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gman said...
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I believe the answer is 4.427 rounded up to 5 trucks.
The distance to warehouse is 0.5km but the travel distance to make a back and forth trip is 1km. So 8 trips per hour, 64 trips a day, 192 pallets moved a day per truck.
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October 14, 2011 at 6:23 PM
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