SOLUTION: Business and finance. Linda Williams has just begun a nursery business and seeks your advice. She has limited funds to spend and wants to stock two kinds of fruit-bearing plants. S

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Question 65756: Business and finance. Linda Williams has just begun a nursery business and seeks your advice. She has limited funds to spend and wants to stock two kinds of fruit-bearing plants. She lives in the northeastern part of Texas and thinks that blueberry bushes and peach trees would sell well there. Linda can buy blueberry bushes from a supplier for $2.50 each and young peach trees for $5.50 each. She wants to know what combination she should buy and keep her outlay to $500 or less. Write an inequality and draw a graph to depict what combination of blueberry bushes and peach trees she can buy for the amount of money she has. Explain the graph and her options.
Answer by prmarella(4) (Show Source):
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Let the No of blueberry bushes he purchses be = x
Let the No of peach trees he purchses be = y
cost of each blueberry bushes = $2.50
cost of each peach trees = $5.50
cost of "x" Number of blueberry bushes = $2.50( x )
cost of"y" Number of peach trees = $5.50( y )
Total cost of "x" Number of blueberry bushes and "y " Number of Peach trees = $2.50( x )+ $ 5.50 ( y )
This amount should be less than or equal to $ 500.
i.e 2.5 x + 5.5y <= 500