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Olive is catering a dinner party for more than 18 guests. Each guest has a choice between a vegetarian dinner or a steak dinner. The vegetarian dinner is $20 per plate and the steak dinner is $30 per plate. Olive can spend no more than $530 on the entire party. If Olive wants to purchase the most amount of food and still stay within budget, which combination of vegetarian and steak dinners is optimal? (2 points)
(16, 7)

(19, 5)

(25, 1)

Answer by greenestamps(13198)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Each of the answer choices serves more than 18 people and uses the full $530 budget.

If "most amount of food" means greatest number of meals, then obviously you want the last, since it serves 26 people while the other choices serve only 23 or 24 people.

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