Question

John is buying food for his cat, Fluffy. Fluffy LOVES a fancy wet food which costs $1.50 per day. Fluffy will also tolerate dry food which is $0.75 per day. John wants to spend at most $9.00 on cat food each week

Answer 1

The answer is below

Explanation:

Let x represent the number of days that fluffy eats wet food in a week and y represents the number of days that fluffy eats dry food in a week.

Hence:

x + y = 7 (1)

Also, John wants to spend at most $9.00 on cat food each week. Hence:

1.5x + 0.75y ≤ 9 (2)

The list of possible points after solving graphically are:

(0,7), (6,0), (0,12) and (5, 2). If x,y > 0, then the point that satisfies the inequality is:

(5, 2) i.e. 5 wet food and 2 dry food