SOLUTION: Britney wants to bake at most 10 loaves of bread for a bake sale. She wants to make banana bread that sells for Php 50 each loaf and carrot bread for Php 60 each and make at leas

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Question 1162740: Britney wants to bake at most 10 loaves of bread for a bake sale.
She wants to make banana bread that sells for Php 50 each loaf
and carrot bread for Php 60 each and make at least Php 580 sales.
Write a system of inequalities for the given situation and solve.
Show also the graph for this system of inequalities.

Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let x = the number  of banana bread loaves,

    y = the number  of carrot bread loaves.


Then your inequalities are


      x +   y <= 10      (1)    (counting loaves)

    50x + 60y >= 580     (2)    (counting money)


You have a system of inequalities consisting of two inequalities, that must be held simultaneously.


Use the graphical method to solve it.


In a coordinate plane (x,y) draw the line  y = 10-x, representing first inequality.

Draw the second line  y = %28580-50x%29%2F60 = %2858-5x%29%2F6, representing second inequality.


These lines are shown in my plot below.


    


    Plot y = 10-x  (red),   y = %2858-5x%29%2F6  (green)


The solution set to your inequalities are the points with integer coordinates x and y, that are

below or on the red line and above or on the green line.


As you see from the plot, there are not so many such points (solutions).


The solutions are the points  (x,y) = (0,10) and (1,9).


So, the examples of solutions, the problems asks for are

    a)  0 banana, 10 carrot loaves

    b)  1 banana, 9 carrot  loaves.

From my post, learn on how to solve systems of inequalities graphically.

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See the lesson
    - Solving systems of inequalities in two unknown graphically in a coordinate plane
in this site.

Find there many other examples of similar solved problems and learn the subject from there once and for all.