SOLUTION: The most you can work 25 hours in a week. Your babysitting job pays $12 per hour and your job at a pizza place pays $8 per hour. You need to earn more than $120 per week to cover

Question 1068135: The most you can work 25 hours in a week. Your babysitting job pays $12 per hour and your job at a pizza place pays $8 per hour. You need to earn more than $120 per week to cover your expenses. Write a system of inequalities to model this situation. Then graph it. Give 2 examples of solutions to this system.
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The most you can work 25 hours in a week. Your babysitting job pays $12 per hour and your job at a pizza place pays $8 per hour. You need to earn more than $120 per week to cover your expenses. Write a system of inequalities to model this situation. Then graph it. Give 2 examples of solutions to this system.
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12b + 8p > 120
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Modify::
3b + 2p > 30
p > -3b + 30

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Ans:: (8,9) (8,10)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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