SOLUTION: The most you can work 25 hours in a week. Your babysitting job pays $12 per hour and your job at a pizza place pays $8 per hour. You need to earn more than $120 per week to cover

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Question 1068127: The most you can work 25 hours in a week. Your babysitting job pays $12 per hour and your job at a pizza place pays $8 per hour. You need to earn more than $120 per week to cover your expenses. Write a system of inequalities to model this situation. Then graph it. Give 2 examples of solutions to this system.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let x be the hours of babysitting, y the hours at the pizza place.
x%2By%3C=25 - Total hours worked
12x%2B8y%3E=120 - Total pay earned
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The solution region is bordered in red.
Two possible solutions are,
x=5, y=15
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x=10, y=10