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A City has 225,000 people and owns multiple trucks for collection of municipal solid
waste (MSW). Each truck has a capacity of 22 yd3
. The MSW is collected by the City for
5 days/week where trash from each household is collected only once per week. If a single
truck serves about 300 customers per day. Assume that a truck is filled at 90% of its
capacity with the compaction density of 600 lbs/yd3
. The uncompacted density of waste
at collection is assumed to be 120 lbs/yd3
. Estimate how many trucks are needed by the
City

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