SOLUTION: Assume a bicycle wheel weighs 3 lbs and a bicycle frame weighs 5 lbs. If a supplier delivers 432 lbs of wheels and 355 lbs of frames to a small manufacturing company, and if each b
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Question 703255: Assume a bicycle wheel weighs 3 lbs and a bicycle frame weighs 5 lbs. If a supplier delivers 432 lbs of wheels and 355 lbs of frames to a small manufacturing company, and if each bike has a profit margin of $25, what amount of money could the company make on these bicycles?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A bicycle need 2 wheels, which weigh lbs
bikes
Each bike needs a frame, so
bikes
So, they can only make 71 bikes, since they are
limited by the number of frames.
They can make $1,775 on the bikes
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