Question

Riley is solving a problem to find the number of tents comma sleeping bags comma and backpacks that she should order. She wrote a system of equations and solved the system. She found that her general solution was (x comma y comma z )equals (15 minus 3 z comma 20 plus 2 z comma z )How many solutions are there to her​ problem?

Answer 1

6

Explanation:

If we place no restrictions on the values of the variables, there are an infinite number of possible solutions.

In this scenario, it is reasonable to require all variables have non-negative integer values. That restricts the solutions to ...

(x, y, z) ∈ {(15, 20, 0), (12, 22, 1), (9, 24, 2), (6, 26, 3), (3, 28, 4), (0, 30, 5)}

There are 6 solutions to her problem.