Activity 1: Graphing

Question

To fill an order for Sizzlin' Sauce sauces, you bought 1050 green peppers and 1200 hot chili peppers.
• Write and graph a system of inequalities to represent how many pints of each kind of sauce you can make. Use the recipes below.
• Select one solution of the system and determine how many peppers you will have left over.

Sizzlin' Sauces Recipes
Scorchin' Hot Sauce Ingredients Red Hot Sauce Ingredients
Yield: 1 pint
1 pint tomato sauce with onions
4 green peppers, diced
8 hot chili peppers, seeded and diced Yield: 1 pint
1 pint tomato sauce with onions
5 green peppers, diced
4 hot chili peppers, seeded and diced

Answer 1

If there are p pints of sauce #1 and q pints of sauce #2,

4p+5q <= 1050
8p+4q <= 1200

Now just pick a solution and proceed.

Answer 2

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