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[smoody]

Two sociologists have grant money to study school busing in a particular city. They wish to conduct an opinion survey using 628 telephone contacts and 372 house contacts. Survey company A has personnel to do 33 telephone and 11 house contacts per hour; survey company B can handle 27 telephone and 17 house contacts per hour. How many hours should be scheduled for each firm to produce exactly the number of contacts needed?
How many hours should be scheduled for Firm A and Firm B to produce exactly the number of contacts needed?

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Two sociologists have grant money to study school busing in a particular city. They wish to conduct an opinion survey using 628 telephone contacts and 372 house contacts. Survey company A has personnel to do 33 telephone and 11 house contacts per hour; survey company B can handle 27 telephone and 17 house contacts per hour. How many hours should be scheduled for each firm to produce exactly the number of contacts needed?
How many hours should be scheduled for Firm A and Firm B to produce exactly the number of contacts needed?

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[Steven G]

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[Oiler]

Let [MATH]X[/MATH] denote the number of hours delegated to company A
And [MATH]Y[/MATH] the number of hours to company B.

Since you know the sum of the number of telephone and house contacts is equal to 628 and 372 respectively, I think an attempt at forming a set of simultaneous equations from this information would be a good place to start.

 

[Otis]

… How many hours should be scheduled for each firm to produce exactly the number of contacts needed?

How many hours should be scheduled for Firm A and Firm B to produce exactly the number of contacts needed?

Hi smoody. Did they ask the same question twice? Maybe the second question asks for the sum of company A's hours plus company B's hours. I'm not sure.

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