Cutting Edge razor blades come in small, medium and large packages. The small package has 6 blades costing $2 per package, the medium has 12 blades costing $3 per package and the large has 24 blades costing $4 per package. A store sold 12 packages of blades containing a total of 162 razor blades. The revenue made from the sale was $35. How many packages of each type were sold? Solve using G-J Elimination.  a. write the system of equations for the information. identify variables  b. write the augmented matrix for the information. c. solve using the G-J elimination method and label each answer.

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Cutting Edge razor blades come in small, medium and large packages. The small package has 6 blades costing $2 per package, the medium has 12 blades costing $3 per package and the large has 24 blades costing $4 per package. A store sold 12 packages of blades containing a total of 162 razor blades. The revenue made from the sale was $35. How many packages of each type were sold? Solve using G-J Elimination. 

a. write the system of equations for the information. identify variables 

b. write the augmented matrix for the information.

c. solve using the G-J elimination method and label each answer.

 

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Let us consider the given system of equations is Ax=b.

The system of equations is solved using the gauss-elimination method.

  1. Determine augmented matrix [A|b].
  2. Apply the row operation method. 
  3. Now, rewrite the equation to get the solution. 
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