SOLUTION: An electronics company makes two types of switches. Type A takes 3 minutes to make and requires ​$2 worth of materials. Type B takes 6 minutes to make and requires ​$6 of mater

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Question 1192915: An electronics company makes two types of switches. Type A takes 3 minutes to make and requires ​$2 worth of materials. Type B takes 6 minutes to make and requires ​$6 of materials. In the latest production​ batch, it took 36 hours to make these​ switches, and the materials cost ​$1960. How many of each type of switch were​ made?

There were ___ Type A switches and ____ Type B switches manufactured.

Found 2 solutions by math_tutor2020, greenestamps:
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x = number of type A switches made
y = number of type B switches made
x and y are nonnegative integers

A single type A switch takes 3 minutes to make, so it takes 3x minutes to make all x type A switches.
Eg: if you had x = 5 type A switches, then it takes 3x = 3*5 = 15 minutes to make all five of them.

A type B switch takes 6 minutes to make, so making y of them will take up 6y minutes.

In total, it takes 3x+6y minutes to make both types of switches. It takes 36 hours, aka 36*60 = 2160 minutes, to make all the switches mentioned.

Therefore, we end up with this equation
3x+6y = 2160
Divide everything by 3 to get
x+2y = 720
Then isolate x to get
x = -2y+720

Now to form the other equation.
Type A costs $2 per switch, so making x switches costs 2x dollars.
Similarly, type B costs $6 per switch to cost 6y dollars.
The total cost is 2x+6y, which is set equal to $1960

2x+6y = 1960
2(x+3y) = 1960
x+3y = 1960/2
x+3y = 980

Let's plug in x = -2y+720 and solve for y
x+3y = 980
-2y+720+3y = 980
y+720 = 980
y = 980-720
y = 260
This is the number of type B switches made.

This leads to,
x = -2y+720
x = -2(260)+720
x = -520+720
x = 200
This is the number of type A switches.

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Answer:
Number of type A switches = 200
Number of type B switches = 260

Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
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x = # of type A switches made
y = # of type B switches made

Each type A switch takes 3 minutes to make; each type B switch takes 6 minutes; the total time was 36 hours = 2160 minutes.

3x%2B6y=2160
x%2B2y=720 [1]

Each type A switch uses $2 worth of materials; each type B switch uses $6 worth of materials; the total cost of the materials used was $1960.

2x%2B6y=1960
x%2B3y=980 [2]

The two equations are in the form that make it clear that solving the pair of equations by elimination is easiest.

x%2B3y=980
x%2B2y=720
y=260

x%2B2%28260%29=720
x%2B520=720
x=200

ANSWER: x=200 type A switches; y=260 type B switches