SOLUTION: You bought ten carnations and five daisies for a total of $12.50. Later that day you bought five carnations and eight daisies for a total of $11.75. Find the price of each carnat

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Question 176153: You bought ten carnations and five daisies for a total of $12.50. Later
that day you bought five carnations and eight daisies for a total of
$11.75. Find the price of each carnation and of each daisy.



What are the dimensions of the product of a 2 x 3 matrix and a
3 x 4 matrix?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let C be the cost of carnations and D be the cost of daisies.
1.
2.
Let's double eq. 2 and subtract 2 from 1 and solve for D.




From 1,
1.



Carnations cost $0.75 while daisies cost $1.00.
.
.
.
To do matrix multiplication, the inner dimensions (3) must match.
The product dimensions are the outer dimensions of the original matrices.


The product would be a 2x4 matrix.

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