Question

Lilth makes soap and lotion. It takes her 20 minutes to make a batch of soap and 35 minutes to make a batch of lotion. The cost of producing each batch are $5 for the soap and $15 for the lotion. Lilth has 20 hours available to make soap and lotion. The materials to make the soap and lotion must cost at most $325. The systems of linear inequalities represent this situation. 5x+15y is less than or equal to 325 20x+35y is less than or equal to 1200 what does the solution (53, 4) represent?

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the number of batches of soap that Lilth makes.

Let y represent the number of batches of lotion that Lilth makes.

It takes her 20 minutes(20/60 = 1/3 hours) to make a batch of soap and 35 minutes(35/60 = 7/12 hours) to make a batch of lotion. Lilth has 20 hours available to make soap and lotion. This means that

x/3 + 7y/12 = 20

4x + 7y = 240- - - - - - - - - - -1

The cost of producing each batch are $5 for the soap and $15 for the lotion. The materials to make the soap and lotion must cost at most $325. This means that

5x + 15y ≤ 325 - - - - - - - - -2

4x = 240 - 7y

x = (240 - 7y)/4

Substituting

5(240 - 7y)/4 + 15y ≤ 325

(1200 - 35y)/4 + 15y ≤ 325

1200 - 35y + 60y ≤ 1300

25y ≤ 1300 - 1200

25y ≤ 100

y ≤ 100/25

y ≤ 4

4x + 7 × 4 = 240

4x + 28 = 240

4x = 212

x = 212/4 = 53

Therefore, the solution (53, 4) means that she would make at most 53 batches of soap and at most 4 batches of lotion