You need to haul a load of patio bricks to a job site. each brick weighs 4 pounds 14 ounces. your truck can carry a 3/4-ton load. how many bricks can your truck carry in a full load?

To answer this item, we must convert first one unit of measurement to the other to be able to perform some mathematical operation. Each ton is composed of 2000 pounds which means that 3/4 ton will be 1500 pounds. Each pound is 16 ounces. Thus, 4 pounds and 14 ounces is equal to 4.875 lbs. Dividing,
                              number of bricks = 1500 lbs / 4.875 lbs 
                                                            = 307.7 

Thus, the number of bricks that I need. Thus, the answer is approximatleu

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