SOLUTION: You work at a bakery, and sell cookies and cupcakes. You can only sell at most 60 baked goods combined. Cookies cost $2 each, and a cupcake $3 each. You want to earn at least $100.

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Question 1146435: You work at a bakery, and sell cookies and cupcakes. You can only sell at most 60 baked goods combined. Cookies cost $2 each, and a cupcake $3 each. You want to earn at least $100. Write a system of linear inequalities to determine how many cookies and cupcakes can be sold. Label your variables.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
k cooKies
p cuPcakes

system%28k%2Bp%3C=60%2C2k%2B3p%3E=100%29

Understand also that system%281%3C=k%3C=60%2Cand%2C1%3C=p%3C=60%29.