SOLUTION: Ozark Furniture Company can obtain at most 3000 board feet of maple lumber for making its classic and modern maple rocking chairs. A classic maple rocker requires 15 board feet of

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Question 133223: Ozark Furniture Company can obtain at most 3000 board feet of maple lumber for making its classic and modern maple rocking chairs. A classic maple rocker requires 15 board feet of maple, and a modern rocker requires 12 board feet of maple. Write an inequality that limits the possible number of maple rockers of each type that can be made, and graph the inequality in the first quadrant.
Answer by checkley71(8403) About Me  (Show Source):
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LET X BE THE NUMBER OF MODERN ROCKERS & Y= THE NUMBER OF CLASSIC ROCKERS.
12X+15Y=3000
15Y=-12X+3000
Y=-12X/15+3000/15
Y=-3X/4+200
+graph%28+300%2C+200%2C+-300%2C+5%2C+-10%2C+200%2C+-3x%2F4+%2B200%29+ (graph 300x200 pixels, x from -300 to 5, y from -10 to 200, -3x/4 +200).