Solve the problem using matrices.
A company that manufactures products A, B, and C does both assembly and testing. The hours
needed to assemble and test each product are shown in the table below.
Hours needed
weekly to assemble
Hours needed
weekly to test
Product A 1 4
Product B 1 5
Product C 2 10
The company has exactly 21 hours per week available for assembly and 95 hours per week
available for testing. If the company must produce t units of Product C this week, how many units
of Products A and B can they produce?
10 of Product A; –2t +11 of Product B
10 of Product A; 11 of Product B
10t of Product A; 2t +11 of Product B
t +10 of Product A; t +11 of Product B
Write a system of linear equations in three variables, and then use matrices to solve the system.
The table below shows the number of birds for three selected years after an endangered species
protection program was started.
x (Number of years after 1980) 1 5 10
y (Number of birds) 42 202 627
Use the quadratic function y = ax2+ bx + c to model the data. Solve the system of linear equations
involving a, b, and c using matrices. Find the equation that models the data.
Use Cramer’s rule to solve the system.