SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem: Caroline makes homemade blackberry and strawberry jam. Each Saturday, she sells her jam at a local farmer's market. Caroline makes a profit of $

Question 1042405: Please help me solve this problem:
Caroline makes homemade blackberry and strawberry jam. Each Saturday, she sells her jam at a local farmer's market. Caroline makes a profit of $2.68 from each jar of blackberry jam that she sells, and she makes a profit of $1.54 from each jar of strawberry jam that she sells. On an upcoming Saturday, Caroline has 54 jars of blackberry and strawberry jam to sell, and she wants make a profit of at least $105.96.
If x represents the number of jars of blackberry jam that Caroline sells and y represents the number of jars of strawberry jam that Caroline sells, then what are the systems of linear inequalities can be used to determine the number of jars of blackberry and strawberry jam that Caroline sells on the given Saturday?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

x      jars of blackberry jam
y      jars of strawberry jam

Profit expected is 105.96 dollars.
Number of jars of jams is 54.
x at $2.68
y at $1.54

Account for jars and profit to expect:

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