Demothi is baking cookies for a bake sale.He is making chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies.He gets 2.50 pesos for each chocolate chip cookie and 3.00 pesos for each oatmeal raisin cookies. He cannot make more than 500 chocolate, and he cannot make more than 800 cookies total. He must make at least one third as many chocolate chip cookies as oatmeal raisin cookies. How many of each kind of cookie should he make to get the most money?

Demothi is baking cookies for a bake sale.He is making chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies.He gets 2.50 pesos for each chocolate chip cookie and 3.00 pesos for each oatmeal raisin cookies. He cannot make more than 500 chocolate, and he cannot make more than 800 cookies total. He must make at least one third as many chocolate chip cookies as oatmeal raisin cookies. How many of each kind of cookie should he make to get the most money?

Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction

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Author:David Poole

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Chapter2: Systems Of Linear Equations

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