SOLUTION: Under the following constraints, John earns $15 per hour as a bookkeeper and $16 per hour for tutoring: John can work no more than 20 hours per week The tutoring center requires

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Question 1005975: Under the following constraints, John earns $15 per hour as a bookkeeper and $16 per hour for tutoring:
John can work no more than 20 hours per week
The tutoring center requires that John spend at least 4 hours per week tutoring.
The tutoring center requires that John spend no more than 12 hours per week tutoring.
John claims that he will maximize his weekly earnings by working for 11 hours as a bookkeeper and for 9 hours as a tutor.
Question: Is John’s claim correct? Why or Why not?
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Not correct. The point (9,11) is not a vertex of the feasibility area where x is the number of tutoring hours and y is the number of bookkeeping hours.

John

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