SOLUTION: 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 fruite-bearing plants.She lives in the northea

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Question 788968: 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 fruite-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 combinations of blueberry bushes and peach trees she can buy for the amount of money she has.Explain the graph and her options.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let b = how many blueberry bushes
Let p = how many peach trees

Accounting for cost to be less than $500,
2.50b%2B5.50p%3C=500
Maybe you could simplify, although more than one way to choose.
Divide by 2.5 gives b%2B2.2p%3C=200

Choose you vertical and horizontal axes for each of the two variables, b and p.