The quarry produced 500 m3 of sand per day. Determine the carrying capacity of one railway

The quarry produced 500 m3 of sand per day. Determine the carrying capacity of one railway platform, if 30 platforms were required to transport sand.

Given:

V1 = 500 cubic meters – the amount of sand that was mined in the quarry per day;

N = 30 – the number of platforms required to transport all the sand;

ro = 1500 kilograms per cubic meter – the density of natural sand.

It is required to determine m (kilogram) – the carrying capacity of one platform.

Let’s find the capacity of the mass of all mined sand:

M = V1 * ro = 500 * 1500 = 750,000 kilograms.

Then the carrying capacity of one platform will be equal to:

m = M / n = 750,000 / 30 = 25,000 kilograms (25 tons).

Answer: the carrying capacity of one platform is 25,000 kilograms.