SOLUTION: Please help. Thank you A book store manager plans to spend $60 on pens at 30 cents each and pencils at 10 cents each. The equation 0.10x + 0.30y = 60 can be used to model this

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Question 92911: Please help. Thank you
A book store manager plans to spend $60 on pens at 30 cents each and pencils at 10 cents each. The equation 0.10x + 0.30y = 60 can be used to model this situation.
a. What do x and y represent?
b. Graph the equation
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Please help. Thank you 
A book store manager plans to spend $60 on pens 
at 30 cents each and pencils at 10 cents each. 
The equation 0.10x + 0.30y = 60 can be used to
model this situation. 

a. What do x and y represent?

x represents the number of pencils.
y represents the number of pens.

b. Graph the equation

    y (pens)
    

Edwin