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A company is working on a new cereal bar, with two ...
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A company is working on a new cereal bar, with two ingrediants, peanut butter and oats. They want to have a total of 131 grams of carbohydrates and 23 grams of protein . Using the following table, create a system of 2 equations and 2 unknowns to find out how many tablespoons of each ingreidant they need. Solve using matrices. Show all work.     Peanut Butter = 2 carbs 4 protein    and Oats = 8 carbs and 1 protein.   a. write an equation for total amount of carbs. b. write equation for total amount of protein. c. determine the augmented matrix.   d. solve for this same matrix using the gaussian elimination.   e. How many tablespoons of each are needed?

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May 16 1:34 PM (12 minutes and 36 seconds later)
         
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a) 2x + 8y = 131

b) 4x + 1y = 23

c)
A =

2 8 131
4 1 23

d)
x = 53/30
y = 239/15

e)
1.766 spoons of peanut butter
15.933 spoons of oats

Sincerely,
Sk1llz


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