Suppose you buy flour and cornmeal in bulk to make flour tortillas and corn tortillas flour costs 1.50lb cornmeal costs 2.50lb you want to spend less than 9.50 on flour and cornmeal and you need at least 4lb altogether

a) write a system of inequalities that describes this situation
b) graph the system to show all possible solutions

1 answer

f+c >= 4
1.50f + 2.50c <= 9.5

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solve f+c >= 4, 1.50f + 2.50c <= 9.5