Could you please help?
The Christmas tree store has a parking lot that will hold 1000 vehicles. 2/5 of the parking spaces are for cars. When you went to buy your tree, there were 200 cars and some trucks in the parking lot. The parking lot was 3/4 full. How many trucks were in it?
Just think it through. You don't need algebra. There are 400 spaces for cars (2/5 of 1000), and 200 cars were in the car slots. If the entire lot was 3/4 full, there were a total of 750 vehicles. Since 200 were cars, 550 were trucks.
To find out how many trucks were in the parking lot, we first need to calculate the number of parking spaces for cars.
We know that 2/5 of the parking spaces are for cars, so we can calculate that as follows:
(2/5) * 1000 = 400
Therefore, there are 400 parking spaces for cars in the parking lot.
Next, we need to determine the number of cars in the parking lot. We are given that when you went to buy your tree, there were 200 cars.
Since the parking lot was 3/4 full, we can calculate the total number of vehicles in the parking lot as follows:
(3/4) * 1000 = 750
So, there were 750 vehicles in total in the parking lot.
To find the number of trucks, we can subtract the number of cars from the total number of vehicles:
750 - 200 = 550
Therefore, there were 550 trucks in the parking lot.