Enormous State University's Business School Is Buying Computers

question 55

Multiple Choice

Enormous State University's Business School is buying computers. The school has two models to choose from, the Pomegranate and the iZac. Each Pomegranate comes with 400 MB of memory and 80 GB of disk space, and each iZac has 300 MB of memory and 100 GB of disk space. For reasons related to its accreditation, the school would like to be able to say that it has a total of at least 18,000 MB of memory and at least 4,400 GB of disk space. Draw the feasible region that shows the number of each kind of computer it can buy. Find the corner points of the region.
Let the number of Pomegranate models be x, and the number of iZac models be y.

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