Question

You are selling pizzas to raise money for a school field trip. Cheese pizza cost $8 andpepperoni pizza cost $9. You need to sell at least two of each kind of pizza, and you want tosell at least $180 worth of pizza.a. Write and graph a system of linear inequalities that represent the information given.b. You sell 14 cheese pizzas and 10 pepperoni pizzas. Did you reach your sales goal? Explainhow you know.

Answer 1

We have the following:

Let x cheese pizza

Let y pepperoni pizza

`\begin{gathered} x\ge2 \\ y\ge2 \\ 8\cdot x+9\cdot y\ge180 \end{gathered}`

therefore:

a.

b.

yes, because it is in our shaded region