SOLUTION: A furniture shop refinishes tables. Employees use one of two methods to refinish each table. Method I takes 1.5 hours and the material costs $9. Method II takes 2.5 hours, and t

Question 1025494: A furniture shop refinishes tables. Employees use one of two methods to refinish each table. Method I takes 1.5 hours and the material costs $9. Method II takes 2.5 hours, and the material costs $5. Next week, they plan to spend 231 hours in labor and $1026 in material for refinishing tables. How many tables should they plan to refinish with each method?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let X be the number of method I tables, Y method II tables.
1.<--- Hours spent
2. <--- Cost
Multiply eq. 1 by 2 and subtract from eq. 2.

So then,

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