document.write( "Question 745742: I need help with the following problem:
\n" ); document.write( "A man and his daughter manufacture unfinished tables and chairs. Each table requires 3 hours of sawing and 1 hour of assembly. Each chair requires 2 hours of sawing and 2 hours of assembly. Between the two of them, they can put in up to 12 hours of sawing and 8 hours of assembly work each day. Find a system of inequalities that describes all possible combinations of tables and chairs that they can make daily. Graph the solution set.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"x\"= number of tables made per day
\n" ); document.write( "\"y\"= number of chairs made per day
\n" ); document.write( "Two obvious constraints are
\n" ); document.write( "\"x%3E=0\" and \"y%3E=0\"
\n" ); document.write( "The amount of sawing to be done per day would be
\n" ); document.write( "\"3x%2B2y%3C=12\".
\n" ); document.write( "The amount of assembling work to be done per day would be
\n" ); document.write( "\"x%2B2y%3C=8\".
\n" ); document.write( "The inequalities above graph as a region of the x-y plane representing all the possible combinations of numbers of tables and chairs that they can make daily.
\n" ); document.write( " The feasibility region is the quadrilateral OABC, bounded by the lines
\n" ); document.write( "\"x=0\" (the y-axis)
\n" ); document.write( "\"y=0\" (the x-axis)
\n" ); document.write( "\"3x%2B2y=12\" (the blue line) and
\n" ); document.write( "\"x%2B2y=8\" (the green line).
\n" ); document.write( "To plot the blue and green line, I just found the x- and y-intercepts for each one.
\n" ); document.write( "For \"3x%2B2y=12\":
\n" ); document.write( "when \"x=0\", \"3%2A0%2B2y=12\" --> \"2y=12\" --> \"y=12%2F2\" --> \"y=6\" gives us point D(0,6).
\n" ); document.write( "When \"y=0\", \"3x%2B2%2A0=12\" --> \"3x=12\" --> \"x=12%2F3\" --> \"x=4\" gives us point C(4,0)
\n" ); document.write( "For \"x%2B2y=8\":
\n" ); document.write( "when \"x=0\", \"0%2B2y=8\" --> \"2y=8\" --> \"y=8%2F2\" --> \"y=4\" gives us point A(0,4).
\n" ); document.write( "When \"y=0\", \"x%2B2%2A0=8\" --> \"x=8\" gives us point E(8,0).
\n" ); document.write( "The intersection of the 2 lines is the point that satisfies \"3x%2B2y=12\" and
\n" ); document.write( "\"x%2B2y=8\". It is the solution to
\n" ); document.write( "\"system%283x%2B2y=12%2Cx%2B2y=8%29\" --> \"2x=12-8\" --> \"2x=4\" --> \"x=2\" and
\n" ); document.write( "with \"system%28x=2%2Cx%2B2y=8%29\" --> \"2%2B2y=8\" --> \"2y=8-2\" --> \"2y=6\" --> \"y=3\".
\n" ); document.write( "That intersection is the point C(2,3).
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