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Formulate a system of equations for the situation below and solve.
A manufacturer of women's blouses makes three types of blouses: sleeveless, short-sleeve, and long-sleeve. The time (in minutes) required by each department to produce a dozen blouses of each type is shown in the following table.
Sleeveless | Short- Sleeve |
Long- Sleeve |
|
---|---|---|---|
Cutting | 9 | 12 | 15 |
Sewing | 22 | 24 | 28 |
Packaging | 6 | 8 | 8 |
The cutting, sewing, and packaging departments have available a maximum of 87, 176, and 52 labor-hours, respectively, per day. How many dozens of each type of blouse can be produced each day if the plant is operated at full capacity?
sleeveless | ___ dozen |
short-sleeve | ___ dozen |
long-sleeve | ___dozen |
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