Each of 36 students at a school play bought either a cup of orange juice or a sandwich. A cup of orange juice costs $1 and a sandwich costs $3. The total amount collected was $76. How many students bought orange juice, and how many bought a sandwich? Let x represent the number of students who bought a cup of orange juice and y represent the number of students who bought a sandwich. Then the problem can be represented by this system of equations:
x + 3y = 76
x + y = 36
Answer the questions to solve the problem.
1. Explain what you should do with the two equations to eliminate one of the variables. (2 points)

2. Find the value of y. (3 points)

3. Find the value of x. (2 points)

4. Interpret the solution and check the values in the system. (3 points)

answer

d. 10

explanation

the distance from point y to wx is the height of the triangle.

using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

this implies that,

take positive square root of both sides to get,

this implies that,

to find the total number of combinations, multiply the quantity of each item by each other:

2 pairs of shoes x 3 pairs of shorts = 6 different combinations.

1 number

if we use a graphing calculator, there is only one such number that satisfies the conclusion of the mean value theorem, that is, a number such that

where the right-hand side is the average rate of change of f on the interval [0.5,0.75], which is the slope of the secant line.

in the attached graph, the black line is the secant line which has its slope as the average rate of change of f on [0.5,0.75], while the orange line is the only tangent line to the graph of f in the interval that satisfies the mvt conclusion.