A catering business offers two sizes of baked ziti. Its small ziti dish uses 1 cup of sauce and 1 3/4 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?
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The small ziti dish uses 1 cup of sauce and 1 3/4 cups of cheese. So, for x small dishes, the business will use x cups of sauce and 1.75x cups of cheese. Show more…
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