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GrogVix [38]
3 years ago
8

Can someone help me with this problem I really don’t know how to work it out and I’m getting frustrated please help..

Mathematics
1 answer:
11Alexandr11 [23.1K]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

  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.

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