An international organization must decide how to spend the $1,800,000 they have been allotted for famine relief in a remote area.They expect to divide the money between buying rice at $38.50/sack and beans at $35/sack. The number, P, of people who would be fed if they buy x sacks of rice and y sacks of beans is given by P= 1.1x + y xy 108 What is the maximum number of people that can be fed, and how should the organization allocate its money?

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An international organization must decide how to spend the $1,800,000 they have been allotted for famine relief in a remote
area.They expect to divide the money between buying rice at $38.50/sack and beans at $35/sack. The number, P, of people who would
be fed if they buy x sacks of rice and y sacks of beans is given by
P = 1.1x + y
What is the maximum number of people that can be fed, and how should the organization allocate its money?
Round your answers to the nearest integer.
Pm
ху
108*
max
= i
is attained on buying i
sacks of beans.
sacks of rice and
Transcribed Image Text:An international organization must decide how to spend the $1,800,000 they have been allotted for famine relief in a remote area.They expect to divide the money between buying rice at $38.50/sack and beans at $35/sack. The number, P, of people who would be fed if they buy x sacks of rice and y sacks of beans is given by P = 1.1x + y What is the maximum number of people that can be fed, and how should the organization allocate its money? Round your answers to the nearest integer. Pm ху 108* max = i is attained on buying i sacks of beans. sacks of rice and
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