SOLUTION: A bookstore manager plans to spend $60 on pens at 30 cents each and pencils at 10 cents each. The equation 0.10x+0.30y=60 can be used to model this situation. a. What do x and y

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Question 133387: A bookstore manager plans to spend $60 on pens at 30 cents each and pencils at 10 cents each. The equation 0.10x+0.30y=60 can be used to model this situation.
a. What do x and y represent?
b. Graph the equation.

Answer by vleith(2983)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x is the number of pencils. y is the number of pens




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