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While at college orientation, Kate is buying some cans of juice and some cans of soda for the dorm. The juice is $0.60 per can while the soda is $0.75. Kate has $24 of dorm funds all to be spent. What is an equation that represents all the different combinations of juice and soda Kate can buy for $24 and how many different combinations of drinks are possible?

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From the question the following can be derived:

(a)

Let x cans of juice and y cans of soda be purchased for the dorm. Then the cost of the juice and soda is 0.60x + 0.75y. The equation of all the combinations of juice and soda is 0.60x + 0.75y = 24.

(b)

The cost of exactly 24 cans of juice is $24 * 0.60 = $14.40. After this purchase, the remaining sum of money available is $24 - $14.40 = $9.60. This will suffice to buy 12 cans of soda, leaving a balance of $0.80. Thus. the entire money cannot be spent if exactly 24 cans of juice are purchased.

(c)

Below is a graph of the line 0.6x + 0.75y = 24 or 4x + 5y = 160 is plotted. All possible cimbinations of juice and soda will lie on this line. The x-intercept is 40 and the y-intercept is 32. Since neither of x and y can be negative, hence the lower and upper bounds for x are 0 and 40 and the lower ad upper bounds for y are 0 and 32. Also , x has to be multiple of 5 and y has to be a multiple of 4. As may be observed from the graph, only 9 combinations are possible which are (x, y):

(0, 32), (5, 28), (10, 24), (15, 20), (20, 16), (25, 12), (30, 8), (35, 4), (40, 0).

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