Red Bookstore wants to ship books from its warehouses in Brooklyn and Queens to its stores, one on Long Island and one in Manhattan. Its warehouse in Brooklyn has 1,000 books and its warehouse in Queens has 2,000. Each store orders 1,500 books. It costs $5 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Long Island and $1 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Manhattan. It costs $4 to ship each book from Queens to Long Island and $2 to ship each book from Queens to Manhattan. (a) If Red has a transportation budget of $8,840 and is willing to spend all of it, how many books should Red ship from each warehouse to each store in order to fill all the orders? (Assume Red spends the entire transportation budget.) Brooklyn to Long Island 500 X books Brooklyn to Manhattan 500 X books Queens to Long Island 1000 X books Queens to Manhattan 1000 X books (b) Is there a way of doing this for less money? O Yes O No

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Red Bookstore wants to ship books from its warehouses in Brooklyn and Queens to its stores, one on Long Island and one in Manhattan. Its warehouse in Brooklyn has 1,000 books and its warehouse
in Queens has 2,000. Each store orders 1,500 books. It costs $5 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Long Island and $1 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Manhattan. It costs $4 to ship each book
from Queens to Long Island and $2 to ship each book from Queens to Manhattan.
(a) If Red has a transportation budget of $8,840 and is willing to spend all of it, how many books should Red ship from each warehouse to each store in order to fill all the orders? (Assume Red
spends the entire transportation budget.)
Brooklyn to Long Island
500
X books
Brooklyn to Manhattan
500
X books
Queens to Long Island
1000
X books
Queens to Manhattan
1000
X books
(b) Is there a way of doing this for less money?
Yes
No
Transcribed Image Text:Red Bookstore wants to ship books from its warehouses in Brooklyn and Queens to its stores, one on Long Island and one in Manhattan. Its warehouse in Brooklyn has 1,000 books and its warehouse in Queens has 2,000. Each store orders 1,500 books. It costs $5 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Long Island and $1 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Manhattan. It costs $4 to ship each book from Queens to Long Island and $2 to ship each book from Queens to Manhattan. (a) If Red has a transportation budget of $8,840 and is willing to spend all of it, how many books should Red ship from each warehouse to each store in order to fill all the orders? (Assume Red spends the entire transportation budget.) Brooklyn to Long Island 500 X books Brooklyn to Manhattan 500 X books Queens to Long Island 1000 X books Queens to Manhattan 1000 X books (b) Is there a way of doing this for less money? Yes No
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