Question

Write the two inequalities that are deciding factors for the number of acres of each crop the farmer will plant, based on the amount of money the farmer will spend on planting and cultivating the two crops.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

1. He needs to prepare a warm, dry shelter for the chicks. He will need chick starter (special food) that costs $1 per chick. It will take 2 hours of his time.

2. His mom will give him a ride to the hatchery where he can buy the chicks for $1.20 each. Maurice has to pay $12 for gas and it takes him 2 hours to collect the chicks.

3. For the next sixteen weeks, the chicks grow into adulthood. Once they are finished the chick starter formula, they eat grass, which costs him nothing. Maurice expects to lose 10% of his birds before they are fully grown. He has to spend 5 hours per week doing chores like providing fresh water, checking on them, cleaning their roosts, etc.

4. Maurice is a bit squeamish, and he decides that he'll take the fully-grown chickens to a commercial processor for killing and cleaning. His father has a truck that will be able to carry the chickens to the slaughterhouse, but it will cost $20 in fuel and take 4 hours of Maurice's time. The processor charges $3 per bird for its services.

5. When he gets the chickens home, Maurice has to weigh, bag and freeze them. That takes an average of 5 minutes per bird. He estimates the average weight will be 5.5 pounds. Fortunately, his mother is letting him use her extra freezer for free.

6. He decides that he can charge $3.00 per pound if his customers pick up their orders (he won't be doing any deliveries).

Question 1: How many chickens does he need to order so that he can raise the money for the snowboard, keeping in mind that Maurice needs to repay his parents for the money he borrowed from them?

Question 2: If Maurice purchases that many chickens, what would his hourly wage be if he made $450?

Solution

Question 1: Make a chart recording the expenses, revenue, and labour values from the problem. We can define variables for c (the number of chickens bought) and c¢ (the number of chickens that survived the 16 weeks).


Expenses
(in dollars)

Revenue
(in dollars)

Labour
(in hours)

1.

1c


2

2.

1.20c + 12


2

3.

c¢ = 0.9c


80

4.

3c¢ + 20


4

5.


16.5c¢

1/12 c¢

Maurice’s total profit is his revenue minus his expenses. We can sum up his expenses as follows:



Then, Maurice’s profit would be:



Maurice’s profit needs to be at least $450 if he wants to purchase the snowboard. We can set up an inequality to find the minimum number of chickens that must be purchased for Maurice to afford the snowboard.



Maurice needs to purchase at least 49 chicks in order to afford the snowboard once he sells the chickens, fully grown.

Question 2: We can use information from the chart above to find the total number of hours Maurice worked.



Total time in hours = 91.78

If Maurice works a total of 91.78 hours and makes $450, his hourly wage can be found simply by dividing.



If Maurice got paid an hourly wage it would be $4.91 an hour.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

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