Question

2. As you are leaving the community, you notice anohter new communtity just down the street. Because you are in the area, you decide to inquire about it.

a. The sales representative here tells you they also have two floor plans available, but they only have 38 homes still for sale. wright an equation that illustrates the situation. Use x and y to denote floor plan one and floor plan two respectively.

Answer 1

who wrote this?

Answer 2

some moron no doubt. they probably want you to write
\[x+y=38\]

Answer 3

but this line
"Use x and y to denote floor plan one and floor plan two respectively."
will lead to massive confusion.
x is not floor plan 1. x is the NUMBER of homes with floor plan 1

Answer 4

if you need to write an equation, x and y should denote possible numbers, not the things themselves.

Answer 5

just thought i would mention it. there are probably more questions to come yes?

Answer 6

oo yes

Answer 7

go ahead....

Answer 8

b. The representative tells you that floor plan one sells for $175,000 and floor plan two sells for $200,000. She also mentions that all the available house combined are worth $7,200,000. Write an equation that illustrates this situation. Use the same variables you used in part a.

Answer 9

\[175,000x+200,000y=7,200,000\]

Answer 10

don't forget to tell the idiot that wrote this that x is a number, not a floor plan. the NUMBER of houses with the floor plan.

Answer 11

HAHAHA i will thx

Answer 12

aren't you asked how many of each there are?

Answer 13

idk i just wroght the question down

Answer 14

sixteen with floor plan one (there are x of them and x is 16) and therefore twenty-two with floorplan 2

Answer 15

im gussing thats the answer to
c. Use elimination to determine how many houses are available in each floor plan. Explain how you arrived at your answer.