Complete Question:
Hans, a scheduler at Mangel-Wurzel Transport, gets a call from a regular customer needing to move 19.8m³ of rock and soil, which Hans knows from previous experience has an average density of 650/kgm³. Hans has available a dump truck with a capacity of 4m³ and a maximum safe load of 3700kg. Required: calculate the number of trips the dump truck will have to make to haul the customer's load away.
Answer:
Mangel-Wurzel Transport
The number of trips that the dump truck will have to make to haul the customer's load away is:
= 5 trips.
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Volume of customer's load (rock and soil) = 19.8m³
Density of load = 650 kg/m³
Mass of load = Volume of load * Density of load
= 19.8m³ × 650 kg/m³
= 12,870 kg
The maximum safe load (mass) of the dump truck = 3,700 kg
Volume of the dump truck = 4m³
Assuming the truck is to carry 4m³ of the load.
The mass of load that the 4m³ capacity truck can carry = 4m³ × 650kg/m³
= 2,600kg
Quick Check:
Mass = 2,600kg < 3,700 kg, satisfying required conditions.
The number of trips that the truck would make to haul the customer's load away is, therefore, calculated as follows:
Number of trips = N
N = total volume of load/ volume per trip
N = 19.8/4
N = 4.95
N = 5 trips approx.
