Part A
Fill in the blank question.
SHIPPING The OOCL Shenzhen, one of the world’s largest container ships, carries 8063 TEUs (1280-cubic-feet containers). Workers can unload a ship at a rate of 1 TEU every minute. The equation
y
=
8063
−
60
x
represents the number of TEUs on the ship y after x hours of the workers unloading the containers from the Shenzhen.



a. Find the x- and y-intercepts and interpret their meaning in the context of the situation.



The x-intercept is about
. This means that after about
hours, there are
TEUs on the ship.

The y-intercept is
. This means that there were initially
TEUs on the ship.