Question

A catering business offers two sizes of baked ziti. Its small ziti dish uses 1 cup of sauce

| cups of cheese. Its large
ziti dish uses 2 cups of sauce and 3 cups of cheese. The business has 100 cups of sauce and 400 cups of cheese on hand.
It makes $6 profit on their small dishes and $5 profit on their large dishes. It wants to maximize the profit from selling the
two sizes of ziti. Let x represent the number of small dishes and y represent the number of large dishes.
What are the constraints for the problem?

Answer 1

It's C.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

x + 2y ≤ 100 and x + 3y ≤ 400

Maximum profit = 6x + 5y.

Explanation:

Let there be x number of small dishes and y number of large dishes to maximize the profit.

So, total profit is P = 6x + 5y .......... (1)

Now, the small dish uses 1 cup of sauce and 1 cup of cheese and the large dish uses 2 cups of sauce and 3 cups of cheese.

So, as per given conditions,

x + 2y ≤ 100 ........ (1) and

x + 3y ≤ 400 .......... (2)

Therefore, those are the constraints for the problem. (Answer)