SOLUTION: You have $10.50 to spend on oats and raisins. Oats cost $1.50 per pound and raisins cost $3.50 per pound. Graph the equation that represents the numbers of pounds of oats and raisi

Question 1070979: You have $10.50 to spend on oats and raisins. Oats cost $1.50 per pound and raisins cost $3.50 per pound. Graph the equation that represents the numbers of pounds of oats and raisins you can buy, where xx is the number of pounds of oats and y is the number of pounds of raisins.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x oats
y raisins
cost limit 10.50 dollars

You could simplify and calculate the axis intercepts. You could also simplify and put into slope intercept form. Either way, you would be able to make your graph.

---------an obvious point is (0,3).

And any positive whole number values below the line are also solutions.
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