Question

Steve is selling cups of lemonade at a stand outside his house. He has enough supplies on hand to make a maximum of 284 ounces of lemonade. A regular cup holds 9 ounces of lemonade and a small cup can hold 5 ounces of lemonade. Write the inequality in standard form that describes this situation. Use the given numbers and the following variables. x = the number of regular cups of lemonade y = the number of small cups of lemonade

Answer 1

The inequality in standard form that describes the situation is 9x + 5y ≤ 284.

Step-by-step explanation:

To represent the situation of Steve selling cups of lemonade, we can write the inequality in standard form.

Let x represent the number of regular cups of lemonade and y represent the number of small cups of lemonade.

The total number of ounces of lemonade can be found by multiplying the number of regular cups (x) by 9 and the number of small cups (y) by 5.

Therefore, the inequality in standard form is 9x + 5y ≤ 284.