Question

Wendy manages a warehouse. At the end of the year, she decides that she will hire at least 8 new full-time employees. Including benefits, dock workers earn $25,000 per year while forklift operators earn $40,000. She estimates that she can spend a maximum of $250,000 on new employees. The following system of equations is graphed below.

with these restrictions how many different combinations of dock workers and forklift operators can Wendy hire? ​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer:

7

Explanation:

There are 7 grid intersection points in the feasible region. They are ...

(dock workers, forklift operators) = (x, y) = ...

(8, 0), (9, 0), (10, 0), (7, 1), (8, 1), (6, 2), (5, 3)

Wendy can hire 7 different combinations of workers.