document.write( "Question 74648: A home-based company produces both hand-knitted scarves and sweaters. The scarves take 2 hours of labor to produce, and the sweaters take 14 hours. The labor available is limited to 40 hours per week, and the total production capacity is 5 items per week. Write a system of inequalities representing this situation, where x is the number of scarves and y is the number of sweaters. Then graph the system of inequalities. \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #53606 by stanbon(75887)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! The scarves take 2 hours of labor to produce, and the sweaters take 14 hours. The labor available is limited to 40 hours per week, and the total production capacity is 5 items per week. Write a system of inequalities representing this situation, where x is the number of scarves and y is the number of sweaters. Then graph the system of inequalities. \n" ); document.write( "-------------- \n" ); document.write( "Labor inequality: \n" ); document.write( "2x+14y<=40 \n" ); document.write( "x+y<=5 \n" ); document.write( "0<=x<=5 \n" ); document.write( "0<=y<=5 \n" ); document.write( "---------- \n" ); document.write( "Solve each of the 1st two inequalities for \"y\": \n" ); document.write( "y<=-(1/7)x+(20/7) \n" ); document.write( "y<=-x+5 \n" ); document.write( "--------------- \n" ); document.write( "Graph the Equalities and determine the \n" ); document.write( "half-planes of the Inequalities: \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "Cheers, \n" ); document.write( "Stan H. \n" ); document.write( " |