A company is manufacturing two different models of lamps, a table lamp and a floor lamp.

Question

A company is manufacturing two different models of lamps, a table lamp and a floor lamp. A table lamp takes 1 hour to make and a floor lamp takes 2 hours to make. The company has 9 employees working 8-hour days. The total manufacturing capacity is 40 lamps per day.

Let x = table lamp and y = floor lamp. Write the inequality for the number of lamps in standard form.

Answer 1

x + y ≤ 40-hours

Anything else is not possible without more information. There are 72 man-hours yet only 40 lamps can be made.

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