SOLUTION: A ceramics workshop makes serving bowls, platters and bread baskets to sell. A serving bowl takes 3 hours to prepare, 2 hours to paint, and 10 hours to fire. A platter takes 16 hou

Question 414086: A ceramics workshop makes serving bowls, platters and bread baskets to sell. A serving bowl takes 3 hours to prepare, 2 hours to paint, and 10 hours to fire. A platter takes 16 hours to prepare, 3 hours to paint, and 4 hours to fire. A bread basket takes 4 hours to prepare, 16 hours to paint, 7 hours to fire. If the workshop has 99 hours of prep time, 62 hours for painting, and 120 hours for firing, how many of each can be made?
How do I translate this into a system of linear equations?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let number of bowls that can be made =
Let number of platters that can be made =
Let number of bread baskets that can be made =
given:
prep:

Maybe you can do without the < signs. I just wanted to show
that thoses tiomes couldn't be exceeded.
The units for each term are, for instance:
(number of bowls) x (prep time)/(bowl) = prep time
Hope this helps
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