SOLUTION: Alfred's shirt company manufactures two types of shirts: business and casual. On business shirts, Alfred makes $4 profit and on casual shirts, Alfred makes $3 profit 'x' equals bu

Question 274768: Alfred's shirt company manufactures two types of shirts: business and casual. On business shirts, Alfred makes $4 profit and on casual shirts, Alfred makes $3 profit
'x' equals business shirts produced and 'y'equals casual shirts produced.
From the given profit information, we can form an equationfor the amount of profit (P) made, given that 'x' business shirts and 'y' casual shirts are produced:
a) write down a rule for the profit $P in terms of x and y.
I have attempted to do this by trying to find a constant and a variable, and i know that the variable will be the number with the pronumeral, but i cannot seem to find a constant.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Alfred's shirt company manufactures two types of shirts: business and casual.
On business shirts, Alfred makes $4 profit and on casual shirts, Alfred makes $3 profit
'x' equals business shirts produced and 'y'equals casual shirts produced.
From the given profit information, we can form an equation for the amount of profit (P) made, given that 'x' business shirts and 'y' casual shirts are produced:
a) write down a rule for the profit $P in terms of x and y.
:
I don't think a constant is given here, it's just:
P = 4x + 3y
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