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You drive a semitrailer with a maximum legal weight of 80, 000 pounds. The weight of your truck and its current load is 64, 115 pounds. How manyou put into the trailer without being over the legal weight?

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Write out the given information

[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{current weight=64 115 pounds } \\ \text{Legal weight =80 000 pounds } \end{gathered}[/tex]

The amount of weight to put into the trailer will be given by

[tex]\text{Legal weight-current weight }[/tex]

Then

[tex]80\text{ 000-64 115=}15\text{ 885}[/tex]

Therefore

The amount of weight will be 15 885 pounds

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