Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

question 155

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
-A person with no more than $\$ 3,000$ to invest plans to place the money in two investments, telecommunications and pharmaceuticals. The telecommunications investment is to be no more than 4 times the pharmaceuticals investment. Write a system of inequalities to describe the situation. Let $x =$ amount to be invested in telecommunications and $\mathrm { y } =$ amount to be invested in pharmaceuticals.

• A)\(\begin{array}{l}
• x+y=3,000 \\
• y \geq 4 x \\
• x \geq 0 \\
• y \geq 0
• \end{array}\)
• B)\(\begin{array}{l}
• x+y \leq 3,000 \\
• 4 x \leq y \\
• x \geq 0 \\
• y \geq 0
• \end{array}\)
• C) \(\begin{array}{l}
• x+y \leq 3,000 \\
• x \leq 4 y \\
• x \geq 0 \\
• y \geq 0
• \end{array}\)
• D)\(\begin{array}{l}
• x+y=3,000 \\
• x \leq 4 y \\
• x \geq 0 \\
• y \geq 0
• \end{array}\)

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