SOLUTION: A college student decides that school work limits him to a total of no more than 36 hours per week at his two part-time jobs. He earns $6 per hour hanging wall paper and he has a s

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Question 706342: A college student decides that school work limits him to a total of no more than 36 hours per week at his two part-time jobs. He earns $6 per hour hanging wall paper and he has a sale jobs that pays $8 per hour. He needs to earn at least $245 per week to cover his expenses. Write a system of inequalities that shows the various numbers of hours he can work at each job Let h represent the number of hours spent hanging wall paper and let s represent the number of hours spent working at the sales job.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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h%2Bs%3C=36
AND
6h%2B8s%3E=245

The rest of the solution may be really easy using graphing. Maybe try changing the inequality statements into slope intercept form, using h as the horizontal axis and s as the vertical axis. You then may want s as a function of h.

The time statement is s%3C=-h%2B36, and the wages statement is s%3E=-%283%2F4%29h%2B245%2F6.
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