small home business creates muffins, bones, and cookies for dogs. In addition to other ingredients, each muffin requires 2 units of beef, 3 units of chicken, and 2 units of liver. Each bone requires 1 unit of beef, 1 unit of chicken, and 1 unit of liver. Each cookie requires 2 units of beef, 1 unit of chicken, and 1.5 units of liver. Find the number of muffins, bones, and cookies that the company can create with the given amounts of ingredients. 1090 units of beef 1050 units of chicken 985 units of liver   muffins   bones   cookies

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A small home business creates muffins, bones, and cookies for dogs. In addition to other ingredients, each muffin requires 2 units of beef, 3 units of chicken, and 2 units of liver. Each bone requires 1 unit of beef, 1 unit of chicken, and 1 unit of liver. Each cookie requires 2 units of beef, 1 unit of chicken, and 1.5 units of liver. Find the number of muffins, bones, and cookies that the company can create with the given amounts of ingredients.

1090 units of beef
1050 units of chicken
985 units of liver
  muffins
  bones
  cookies
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Here a small business creates muffins bones an cookies for dogs in addition to other ingredients each muffins requires 2 units of beef , 3 unit of chicken and 2 unit of liver and each bones required 1 unit of beef, 1 unit of chicken and 1 unit 0f liver. Each cookies required 2 unit of beef , 1unit of chicken and 1.5 unit of liver .

To find - we have to find the number of muffins , bones and cookies that company can create with the given amount of ingredients

we have  1090 units of beef 

                1050 units of chicken and 

                985 units of liver

Let us suppose The company creates the number of muffins = a 

                         and the number of bones = b

                         and the number of cookies = c

Now from the data given above we have the equations 

        2a+b+2c=10903a+b+c=10502a+b+1.5c=985

 

 

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