Susan wants to make pumpkin bread and coffee cakes for the school bake sale. she has 15 eggs and 16 cups of flour in her pantry. her pumpkin bread recipe uses 2 eggs and 3 cups of flour. her coffee cake recipe uses 3 eggs and 4 cups of flour. she plans to sell pumpkin bread loaves for $5 each and coffee cake loaves for $4 each. susan wants to maximize the money raised at the bake sale. let x represent the number of loaves of pumpkin bread and y represent the number of loaves of coffee cake susan bakes.

what is the objective function for the problem?

p = 15x + 16y

p = 5x + 7y

p = 5x + 4y

p = 4x + 5y

answer:

payment just for service  

→

$

87.12

payment for service including tax

→

$

94.09

explanation:

service only with 20% tip  

→

$

72.6

(

1

+

20

100

)

=

$

87.12

in the opening of the question the word 'service' is associated only with the pretax value.

the closing part of the question asks: how much did she pay for the  

service

−−−−−−  

so technically the answer is  

→

$

72.6

(

1

+

20

100

)

=

$

87.12

however, the intention of the question provider may have been that your answer is to be  

$

87.12

(

1

+

8

100

)

=

$

94.09

to 2 decimal places.

'

payment just for service  

→

$

87.12

payment for service including tax

→

$

94.09

tony b

mar 21, 2017

answer:

trying to explain it another way

explanation:

service charge  

.

→

$

72.60

20% tip  

20

100

×

$

72.60

=

$

14.52

−−−−−−  

←

add

$

87.12

tax  

8

100

×

$

87.12

=

$

6.97

−−−−−  

←

add

$

94.09

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