SOLUTION: Mason is working two summer jobs, making $20 per hour lifeguarding and making $10 per hour landscaping. In a given week, he can work no more than 13 total hours and must earn at le

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Question 1179619: Mason is working two summer jobs, making $20 per hour lifeguarding and making $10 per hour landscaping. In a given week, he can work no more than 13 total hours and must earn at least $170. If xx represents the number of hours lifeguarding and yy represents the number of hours landscaping, write and solve a system of inequalities graphically and determine one possible solution.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
system%28x%2By%3C=13%2C20x%2B10y%3E=170%29

A simplification:
system%28x%2By%3C=13%2C2x%2By%3E=17%29

Equivalently:
system%28y%3C=-x%2B13%2Cy%3E=-2x%2B17%29
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