Chairs and Recliners

A small furniture company manufactures sofas and recliners. Each sofa requires 8 hours of labor and $65 in mat?

A small furniture company manufactures sofas and recliners. Each sofa requires 8 hours of labor and $65 in materials, while a recliner can be built for $25 in 7 hours. The company has 330 hours of labor available each week and can afford to buy $1725 worth of materials. How many sofas and recliners can be produced if all labor hours and all materials must be used?

Public Comments

1. 15 sofas and 30 recliners
2. In case WaldoBC cannot be at your side to help you on test day, You start with the two variable, 2 equation concept {which is very popular!} You are making some Sofas every 8 hours, and some Recliners every 7 hours. so you have 8S + 7R in 330 hours and 65 $ of material for each S and 25R = 1725 Now substitute in, collect like variables, simplify, solve, and plug intermediate answers back into the original equations to prove work and get the real answers you want {i.e., How Many?}