A lift truck operates at an average speed of 3 m/s. If the distance from the manufacturing facility to the warehouse is 300 m, how many round trips can it make in one 8-hour workday, considering loading and unloading times?

To determine how many round trips the lift truck can make in one 8-hour workday, we need to calculate the total time available for trips after accounting for loading and unloading times, and then find the time taken for each round trip.

First, let's find the total work time in seconds for an 8-hour shift: 8 hours = 8 × 60 minutes/hour × 60 seconds/minute = 28,800 seconds.

Next, we calculate the total distance for a round trip from the manufacturing facility to the warehouse and back: Total distance for a round trip = 300 m (to warehouse) + 300 m (back to facility) = 600 m.

Now, we find the time taken to complete one round trip at the average speed of 3 m/s: Time for one round trip = Total distance / Average speed = 600 m / 3 m/s = 200 seconds.

At this point, it’s essential to consider the loading and unloading times. However, for the sake of figuring out how many trips can be made, let's say we assume that the combined loading and unloading time per round trip is negligible for this calculation, or we treat it as already incorporated into effective round trip time. This simplification