You are treating two of your friends to the movies tonight. Your parent gives you $70. Tickets are $7 each. At the candy counter, you are buying snacks and drinks for your friends as they find seats. Snacks are $2 each, and drinks are $2.25. You are trying to decide what combination of snacks and drinks are possible given the money remaining. You can only carry drinks on a tray by yourself. a. Write a system of inequalities for this situation, using x for the number of snacks and y for bottles of water purchased.
This is a linear programming problem.