Question 27879
A home-based company produces both hand-knitted scarves and sweaters. The scarves take 2 hours of labor to produce, and the sweaters take 14 hours. The labor available is limited to 40 hours per week, and the total production capacity is 50 items per week. Write a system of inequalities representing this situation, where x is the number of scarves and y is the number of sweaters. Then graph the system of inequalities.


x + y < or equal to 50 items <-- # of scarves plus the # of sweaters cannot go over 50 items


2x + 14y < or equal to 40 hours <-- 2 hours per # of scarves plus 14 hours per # of sweaters cannot exceed 40 hours


x > or equal to 0
y > or equal to 0


Where are you getting the $800 from?
Solver the inequalities for y and graph them just like a linear equation.