Question

Jordan works for a landscape company during his summer vacation. He is paid $12 per hour for mowing lawns and $14 per hour for planting gardens. He can work a maximum of 40 hours per week, and would like to earn at least $250 this week. If m represents the number of hours mowing lawns and g represents the number of hours planting gardens, which system of inequalities could be used to represent the given conditions? *

Answer 1

12m + 14g ≥ 250

m + g ≤ 40

Explanation:

You can only work a max of 40 hours so m + g has to be less than 40.

You want to make greater than $250. So $12m and $14g must add up greater than 250.