Question

The band is selling boxes of fruit to raise money for new uniforms. Boxes of oranges cost $12 per box and boxes of grapefruits cost $15 per box. To get free shipping on all of the fruit each band member must sell at least 25 boxes of fruit. In order to meet your goal, you want to sell at least $500 worth of fruit. Write a system of linear inequalities to model the situation and then solve.​

Answer 1

The band is selling boxes of fruit to raise money for new uniforms. Boxes of oranges cost $12 per box and boxes of grapefruits cost $15 per box. To get free shipping on all of the fruit each band member must sell at least 25 boxes of fruit. In order to meet your goal, you want to sell at least $500 worth of fruit.