SOLUTION: a boy sells shirts and ties to make a profit of $5 on each tie and $8 on each shirt, write an expression to represent his total profit 2)draw a graph and then from the graph, fin

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Question 389169: a boy sells shirts and ties to make a profit of $5 on each tie and $8 on each shirt, write an expression to represent his total profit
2)draw a graph and then from the graph, find the number of shirts and ties that he must buy to obtain max profit (3)calculate the max profit

Answer by richard1234(7193)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If t is the number of ties sold and s is the number of shirts sold, the profit is 5t + 8s.

The graph would look 3-dimensional, since there are two independent inputs and one output. There is not enough information to calculate maximum profit.

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