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1 cake and 6 pies
Step-by-step explanation:
Let c represent the number of cakes Alice and George can make. Likewise, let p represent the number of pies.
Then the amount of flour they need (in cups) is ...
3c + 2p . . . . cups of flour needed
And the amount of sugar needed is ...
2c + 1.5p . . . cups of sugar needed
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They want to use all 15 cups of flour they have, and all 11 cups of sugar, so the amounts above need to match the amounts on hand:
3c + 2p = 15
2c + 1.5p = 11
We can solve these equations various ways. One of my favorite is to use a graphing calculator. (See attached) It tells us that Alice and George can make 1 cake and 6 pies with the flour and sugar they have.
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If you want to solve these equations algebraically, there are several methods for that, too. Here, we can multiply the first one by 2/3 and subtract the result from the second one:
(2c +1.5p) -(2/3)(3c +2p) = (11) -(2/3)(15)
2c +3/2p -2c -4/3p = 11 -10 . . . . . eliminate parentheses
1/6p = 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .collect terms
p = 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . multiply by 6
Substituting into the first equation gives ...
3c +2·6 = 15 . . . substitute 6 for p
3c = 3 . . . . . . . . subtract 12
c = 1 . . . . . . . . . . divide by 3
These values tell us Alice and George can make 1 cake and 6 pies with the flour and sugar they have.
Let x represent the speed of of boat.
We have been given that the river current is 3 miles per hour.
The speed of boat upstream will be .
The speed of boat downstream would be .
We have been given that you travel 2 miles downstream to a marina for supplies, and then you travel 3 miles upstream to a dock.
We can represent this information in an equation as:
Since the speed of the boat is 18 miles per hour, so we will substitute in above equation and solve for time.
Since time is in hours, so let us convert our given time in minutes.
1 hour = 60 minutes.
Rounding to nearest tenth of minute.
Therefore, it will take approximately 17.7 minutes for the boat to take the trip.