Final answer:
The student is seeking to determine how many loaves of two types of bread can be baked with a limited supply of ingredients, for which a system of linear inequalities based on estimated usage per loaf can be used to find the solution.
Step-by-step explanation:
The student is tasked with determining the number of loaves of banana bread and poppy-seed almond bread Martha's Bakery can bake given a limited supply of flour and baking soda. We need to establish a system of linear inequalities to model this scenario, but the question seems to be missing specific information about the requirements for the poppy-seed almond bread. Assuming hypothetical quantities of 3 cups of flour and 2 teaspoons of baking soda per loaf of poppy-seed almond bread, the inequalities would be as follows:
- 2b + 3p ≤ 24 (flour constraint)
- b + 2p ≤ 26 (baking soda constraint)
Where b represents the number of banana bread loaves and p represents the number of poppy-seed almond bread loaves. The graph of the inequalities would display the feasible region of the combinations of b and p that Martha's Bakery can bake. The bakery must then check which combinations of loaves fall into this region.