Question 91624: a small firm produces am and am/fm car radios. am radios take 15 hours to produce and am/fm radios take 20 hours to produce. the number of production hours is limited to 300 hours per week. the plants capacity is limited to 18 radios per week and existing orders require that at least 4 am radios and at least 3 am/fm radios be produced each week. write a system on inequalities representing this situation. then draw a graph of the feasible given the conditions, in which X is the number of am radios and Y is the number of am/fm radios.
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Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! This same problem came up a few months ago, this is what I submitted then
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A small firm produces both AM and AM/FM car radios. The AM radios take 15 h to produce, and the AM/FM radios take 20 h. The number of production hours is limited to 300 h per week. The plant's capacity is limited to a total of 18 radios per week, and existing orders require that at least 4 AM radios and at least 3 AM/FM radios be produced per week. Write a system of inequalities representing this situation. Then, draw a graph of the feasible region given these conditions, in which X is the number of AM radios and Y is the number of AM/FM radios.
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Let x = number of AM radios; let y = number of AM/FM radios
The production hour constraint:
15x + 20y =< 300
Arrange in general form to plot the graph
20y =< 300 - 15x
y =< 300/20 - (15/20)x
y =< 15 - .75x, use this to plot the production hr graph (Purple line)
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Plant's capacity constraint:
x + y =< 18
y =< 18 - x, plot this graph also (Green line)
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Min AM radio production constraint:
x => 4
This will be a vertical line going thru the x axis at +4, (I can't draw this in)
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Min AM/FM radio production constaint
y => 3
This will be a horizontal line going thru the y axis at +3, (Dark blue line)
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Here is the graph as presented by these equations except for x => 4,
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The feasibility region:
1. At or below the purple or green line, whichever is lowest
2. At or above the horizontal line
3. At or to the right of the vertical line which you have to draw in at x = +4
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How about this, did it all make some sense to you?
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