Question

A shoe store company employee needs to decide how many shoes to put on display. The store manager wants the number of speakers on display to be at least two more than the number of soccer cleats on display. The store employee represents this restriction as y≥2+x, where x is the number of soccer cleats, and y is the number of sneakers on display.

Which of the following ordered pairs represent viable solutions in terms of the context?
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

A. (-1,3)

B. (4,10)

C. (10,12)

D. (14,12)

E. (15,18.5)

Answer 1

In this situation, the second number must be at least 2 more than the first number. Also, we are dealing with pairs of shoes, so we won't have negative numbers (Choice A is out) or fractions (Choice E is out).

The following are viable solutions:

B (10 is 6 more than 4)

C (12 is 2 more than 10)