Question

A furniture company makes large and small chairs. A small chair takes 20 minutes of machine time and 60 minutes of labor to build. A large chair takes 50 minutes

of machine time and 90 minutes of labor to build. The company has 66 hours of labor time and 30 hours of machine time available each day. How many of each
type of chair is built in a day?

Answer 1

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Answer:

30 small chairs and 24 large chairs

Explanation:

Let x and y represent the numbers of small chairs and large chairs built in a day. Then the relations for using available time are ...

20x +50y = 30×60

60x +90y = 66×60

Removing common factors, these can be written in standard form as ...

2x +5y = 180

2x +3y = 132

Subtracting the second equation from the first gives ...

2y = 48

y = 24 . . . . . divide by 2

Using the first equation to find x, we have ...

2x +5(24) = 180

2x = 60 . . . . . . . . . . subtract 120

x = 30 . . . . . . . . divide by 2

The company can build 30 small chairs and 24 large chairs in a day.