An Excavator Is Preparing to Dig a Basement for a New

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An excavator is preparing to dig a basement for a new house.Part of his contract reads that he must dispose of all the dirt he removes while digging the basement in an EPA approved landfill.He will dig a hole that is 40 feet wide by 50 feet long and 7.5 feet deep.He first uses his shovel and scoops up 1.00 kg of dirt, and then determines that the dirt has a volume of 600 cm³.The excavator knows that his dump truck can only carry 8,000 kg of dirt.How many dump-truck loads will it take to haul the dirt away?

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