Sample Question

A local baseball team decided to give away hats and bats as promotional items for the first 1,000 fans.
The cost to the team is $12 per hat and $8 per bat.
The promotional manager would like to use all $10,300 of his budget on this promotion.

The system models this situation where h is the number of hats and b is the number of bats given away.

Graph the situation and find the solution to the situation using the graph.

Sample Response

The intersection of the lines occurs between 500 and 600 hundred hats and between 400 and 500 bats.
Estimating, I think it is about 580 hats and 420 bats that should be given away.