A highway had a landslide, where 3,00 cubic yards of material fell on the road, requiring 200 dump truck loads to clear. On another highway, a slide left 40,000 cubic yards on the road. How many dump truck loads would be needed to clear this slide?

2667 dump truck loads

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this exercise, we must resort to a proportion rule.

Knowing what happened in the first place, how much was needed, a direct proportion will be made with the other accident, be as follows.

Landslide                                     Dump Truck Loads

3 yd ^ 3 > 200

40 yd ^ 3 > X

X = (40 * 200) / 3

X = 2666.6, that is, for 40 cubic yards of sliding, approximately 2667 dump truck loads are needed.