Transmasra Sugar Company has 36 hectares of land. The company decides to prepare the land for planting wheat and maize. The labour cost of planting maize...

      

Transmasra Sugar Company has 36 hectares of land. The company decides to prepare the land for planting wheat and
maize. The labour cost of planting maize is KSh. 300 per hectare while it costs KSh. 900 to plant a hectare of wheat.
Maize takes 3 labourers per hectare while wheat takes 6 labourers per hectare. Atleast 72 labourers are to be hired
and KSh. 15,000 is to be spent for labour costs. The company hopes to make a profit of KSh. 2,000 per hectare of maize
and KSh. 4,500 per hectare of wheat. Let the number of hectares for maize be x, Let the number of hectares for wheat
be y
(a) Write down inequalities representing the above information.
(b) On the grid provided, draw the inequalities by shading unwanted regions
(c) Use the graph to:-
(i) determine the number of hectares of maize and wheat that should be prepared in order for the company to maximize profit.
(ii) Calculate the maximum profit

  

Answers


sharon
42620191648.png
sharon kalunda answered the question on April 26, 2019 at 13:48


Next: The following table shows the distribution of marks obtained by 50 students of Matare Secondary School.
Previous: The thirteen term of an arithmetic progression is 27. Given that the seventh term equals to three times the second term, find

View More Mathematics Questions and Answers | Return to Questions Index


Exams With Marking Schemes

Related Questions