a delivery person uses a service elevator to bring boxes of books up to an office. the delivery person weighs 180 lb and each box of books weighs 40 lb. the maximum capacity of
the elevator is 850 lb. how many boxes of books can the delivery person bring up at one time?

The delivery person can bring up max 16 boxes at one time.

Step-by-step explanation:

The elevator can only hold max 850 lbs, and the delivery man weighs 180 lbs.

850-180=670

That means the delivery man can have up to 670 lbs of boxes on the elevator.

670/40=16.75

Which means that the delivery man can hold up to 16 boxes max at one time.

answer: city needs 2.4 inches of rainfall more to match the record of 40 inches.

step-by-step explanation:

since we have given that

total annual rainfall a city record = 40 inches

this year, total rainfall recorded = 37.6 inches

number of inches of rainfall   is needed to match the record of 40 inches is given by

hence, city needs 2.4 inches of rainfall more to match the record of 40 inches.