Question

Help with a homework problem on systems of equations

Answer 1

Thanks for any openstudy night owls for the help and jsut cutting to it here is the problem.

While docked, the captain wants to resupply the ship’s missiles and ray-guns. You will need to explain to the captain what information you must know and how that can be used to determine the number of missiles and ray-guns to fill the ship and use all the batteries.
• The ship can hold only 15 weapons total and only has 45 batteries.
• The missiles and ray-guns each require different amounts of batteries to operate.