Alan wants to bake blueberry muffins and bran muffins for the school bake sale. For a tray of blueberry muffins, Alan uses mc017-1.jpg cup of oil and 2 eggs. For a tray of bran muffins, Alan uses 1/2 cup of oil and 1 egg. Alan has 4 cups of oil and 12 eggs on hand. He sells trays of blueberry muffins for $12 each and trays of bran muffins for $9 each. Alan wants to maximize the money raised at the bake sale. Let x represent the number of blueberry muffins and y represent the number of bran muffins Alan bakes.

What are the constraints for the problem?

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Alan wants to bake blueberry muffins and bran muffins for the school bake sale. For a tray of blueberry muffins, Alan uses mc017-1.jpg cup of oil and 2 eggs. For a tray of bran muffins, Alan uses 1/2 cup of oil and 1 egg. Alan has 4 cups of oil and 12 eggs on hand. He sells trays of blueberry muffins for $12 each and trays of bran muffins for $9 each. Alan wants to maximize the money raised at the bake sale. Let x represent the number of blueberry muffins and y represent the number of bran muffins Alan bakes. 

What are the constraints for the problem?

dtan5457 · Answer

"Alan uses 1/2 cup of oil and 1 egg"

that doesn't change

dtan5457 · Answer

aka a constraint

anonymous · Answer

mc017-1.jpg is suppose to be 1/2; I changed it, but I guess it decided to switch back.

dtan5457 · Answer

For a tray of blueberry muffins, Alan uses 1/2 cup of oil and 2 eggs. For a tray of bran muffins, Alan uses 1/2 cup of oil and 1 egg.

those are both constraints per type of muffin