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Question 6 of 10 The high school baseball team is selling donuts to raise money for their new uniforms. The team makes a goal to sell at and a full dozen boxes of donuts for $12. They write the inequality 8x+12y≥ 1, 000 to determine how many boxes the number of full dozen boxes they sell. Which of the following solutions are viable in terms of the given context? Select all that apply.

Answer 1

What does x represent? What does y represent?

You only have one product to sell, boxes of donuts.

Answer 2

Hi!

Word problems like this often try to trip you up by burying the question in a lot of words. So the best thing to do first is take a step back and figure out what is actually being asked. In this case they want to know which x,y pairs that they provided makes the inequality true. However, pay attention to the last line which specifies that it needs to make sense within the context of the story.

The simplest way to solve this problem would actually be to just plug in each x,y pair and keep track of which ones make the inequality true.

If you do this, you'll find that all of the x,y pairs except the first one make the left side of the inequality 1000 or more, which means they make the inequality true in this case. However, the last x,y pair isn't viable in this context because you can't sell -50 boxes of donuts. Therefore everything but the first and last x,y pair is a viable solution.