SOLUTION: You have $10.50 to spend on oats and raisins. Oats cost $1.50 per pound and raisins cost $3.50 per pound. Graph the equation that represents the numbers of pounds of oats and raisi

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Question 1070979: You have $10.50 to spend on oats and raisins. Oats cost $1.50 per pound and raisins cost $3.50 per pound. Graph the equation that represents the numbers of pounds of oats and raisins you can buy, where xx is the number of pounds of oats and y is the number of pounds of raisins.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) About Me  (Show Source):
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x oats
y raisins
cost limit 10.50 dollars

1.5x%2B3.5y%3C=10.5
You could simplify and calculate the axis intercepts. You could also simplify and put into slope intercept form. Either way, you would be able to make your graph.

3x%2B7y%3C=21
7y%3C=-3x%2B21
y%3C=-%283%2F7%29x%2B3---------an obvious point is (0,3).

graph%28300%2C300%2C-2%2C8%2C-2%2C8%2C-%283%2F7%29x%2B3%29

And any positive whole number values below the line are also solutions.