Question

A cargo ship encounters a storm on the high seas and is delayed by two weeks. Once it reaches its destination, the crew discover that 6 out of the 71 crates of fruit it carried have spoilt during the delay. The crates were being shipped for 13 different customers. The crew decide that the remaining spoilt crates ought to be divided equally among the customers and that whatever remains can be sold separately. Each crate contained $$ kg of fruit and each kilogram of fruit could be sold for $2.
what is the loss incurred by the crew because of the spoilage.

Answer 1

The amount per crate is missing from the statement. Let x = kilograms per crate.

6 crates spoilt → lost fruit = 6x kg. At $2 per kg the monetary loss is 6x·2 = 12x dollars.

If you give the value of x I’ll compute the numeric loss (e.g. if each crate had 10 kg then loss = 12·10 = $120).