Question

A company produces accessories for smart phones and tablets. The profit on each smart phone case is $2 and the profit on each tablet case is $3. The company made a profit of $1,200 on the cases last month. The equation 2x + 3y = 1,200 represents the company's profit from cases last month, where x is the number of smart phone cases sold and y is the number of tablet cases sold.

Help...please... :)

Answer 1

1.) Change the equation into slope-intercept form. Identify the slope and y-intercept of the equation. Be sure to show all of your work.

Answer 2

y = mx + b is the equation you are aiming for

you have
3y = -2x + 1200 and you are nearly done

Answer 3

Glad to have helped.

Answer 4

Thanks for the help! :)

Answer 5

You are quite welcome.