500
PART A
Trailers that travel on the road behind trucks are rectangular prisms. A typical height for the inside of these trailers is 108 inches. If the trailer is 8 ft wide and 20 ft long, what is the volume of the trailer?
PART B
A jumbo hopper barge is basically a rectangular prism used to transport bulk items on the river systems of this country. It is 100 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 14 feet deep. They can only be loaded to a depth of 12 feet since there has to be some percentage of the barge above the water. How many trailers described in the previous problem would be needed to match the same volume of a jumbo hopper barge?
A. 1440 ft3
B. One jumbo hopper barge carries the same volume as 25 trailers.