Question

Captain Liz is going to load her cruise ship with bags of sugar. She has room for 19 bags of sugar. She has allotted for 121 pounds of sugar on her ship. She can choose from 7-pound bags (the variable s) or 10-pound bags (the variable p). Which equations would be a constraint to Captain Liz maximizing her sugar load?

Answer 1

B. 7s = 121 - 10p is the answer

Answer 2

Explanation:

Let the sugar from 7 pound bags be represented by = s

And let the sugar from 10 pound bags be represented by = p

As given, Captain Liz has room for 19 bags of sugar.

This becomes
`s+p=19` .......(1)

Also given is , she has room for 19 bags of sugar, so equation becomes:

`7s+10p=121` ............(2)

Hence, these are the correct equations.