SOLUTION: A furniture company displays bedroom sets which require 21 square meters of space and living room sets which require 42 square meters of space. The company, which has 546 square m

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Question 161408: A furniture company displays bedroom sets which require 21 square meters of space and living room sets which require 42 square meters of space. The company, which has 546 square meters of available space, wants to display at least 6 bedroom sets and at least 5 living room sets.
Let x represent the number of bedroom sets and y represent the number of living room sets. Write a system of inequalities to represent the number of furniture sets that can be displayed.
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A furniture company displays bedroom sets which require 21 square meters of space and living room sets which require 42 square meters of space. The company, which has 546 square meters of available space, wants to display at least 6 bedroom sets and at least 5 living room sets.
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Let x represent the number of bedroom sets and y represent the number of living room sets. Write a system of inequalities to represent the number of furniture sets that can be displayed.
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x => 6
y => 5
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21x + 42y =< 546