Question

A truck is shipping jugs of water and cases of paper towels. A jug of drinking water weighs 40 pounds and a case of paper weighs 16 pounds. The truck can carry 2000 pounds of cargo altogether. How can I graph this?

Answer 1

40w + 16p ≤ 2000

Explanation:

let 'w' = jugs of water

let 'p' = cases of paper

the area of shading will include negative values which you can ignore because those values do not apply to this problem