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.
Loss = dollars

Answer 1

The problem statement is missing the number of kilograms per crate ("$$ kg"). I can’t give a numeric dollar loss without that.

Loss (dollars) = number of spoilt crates × kg per crate × $2/kg
= 6 × (kg per crate) × 2
= 12 × (kg per crate) dollars.

If you tell me how many kilograms were in each crate, I’ll compute the numeric loss. (Example: if each crate held 10 kg, loss = 12×10 = $120.)