SOLUTION: Hello, I am having trouble understanding and solving this problem: A furniture company makes desks and chairs. A carpenter can make a chair in 5 hours and a desk 8 in hours. Fin

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Question 983525: Hello, I am having trouble understanding and solving this problem:
A furniture company makes desks and chairs. A carpenter can make a chair in 5 hours and a desk 8 in hours. Finishers take 2.5 hours to paint a chair and 2 hours to paint a desk. The carpentry department has enough people to work up to 400 hours per week, and the finishing department can put in 120 hours per week.
a.) Write a system of inequalities to model the situation.
b.) Graph the system to show the possible numers of desks and chairs the company can produce in a week.
-Thank you.
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Which part is giving you difficulty, setting up the inequalities, or graphing the model?

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it