The non-profit organization you volunteer for is throwing a fundraiser cook out. You are in charge of buying the hamburgers, which cost $3 per pound and hotdogs, which cost $2 per pound. The meat budget you are given totals $600. The inequality 3x + 2y less than or greater to 600 represents the possible combinations of pounds of hamburgers (x) and hotdogs (y) you can buy.

Which of the following represents a solution to the inequality?

200 pounds of hamburgers and 140 pounds of hotdogs

150 pounds of hamburgers and 60 pounds of hotdogs

100 pounds of hamburgers and 240 pounds

Question

The non-profit organization you volunteer for is throwing a fundraiser cook out. You are in charge of buying the hamburgers, which cost $3 per pound and hotdogs, which cost $2 per pound. The meat budget you are given totals $600. The inequality 3x + 2y less than or greater to 600 represents the possible combinations of pounds of hamburgers (x) and hotdogs (y) you can buy.

Which of the following represents a solution to the inequality?

 200 pounds of hamburgers and 140 pounds of hotdogs

 150 pounds of hamburgers and 60 pounds of hotdogs

 100 pounds of hamburgers and 240 pounds

inhaleof · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

The question was two fold:  First they want to know should 3x+2y be less than or greater than 600?   So,  what does 3x+2y represent?

In this case, they gave you 3 was the price per pund of hambuger and 2 was the price of hot dogs per pound, and you have a MAXIMUM of 600 to spend.   What should the inequality be?

Then, the second part is even simpler....which of those 3 purchaces comes under your budget of 600?

inhaleof · Answer

so its the second one ?

anonymous · Answer

For part 2 of the question, yes.  Part one of the question need you to say is it "less than" or "greater than" that should be in the inequality