SOLUTION: Caitlyn sells her drawings at the county fair. She wants to sell at least 70 drawings and has portraits and landscapes. She sells the portraits for $15 and the landscapes for $10.

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Question 1136885: Caitlyn sells her drawings at the county fair. She wants to sell at least 70 drawings and has portraits and landscapes. She sells the portraits for $15 and the landscapes for $10. She needs to sell at least $800 worth of drawings in order to earn a profit. Write a system of inequalities to model this situation. Let p represent the number of portraits sold and let l represent the number of landscapes sold.
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   p +    l >= 70     drawings    (1)

15*p + 10*l >= 800    dollars     (2)