We consider buying three kinds of food. food i has 1 unit of vitamin a, 3 units of vitamin b, and 4 units of vitamin c. food ii has 2, 3, and 5 units, respectively and food iii has 3, 0 and 3 units, respectively. we need to have 11 units of vitamins a, 9 of vitamin b, and 20 of vitamin c. (a) find all possible amounts of three foods that will provide precisely these amounts of vitamins. (b) if food i costs 60 cents and the others cost 10 cents each per unit, is there a solution costing exactly 100 cents.

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step-by-step explanation:

  answer:

  write 548 as 500 + 40 + 8. multiply each addend by 5. then add the three products to get 2,740.

this excerpt is taken from the book “we shall not be moved : the women’s factory strike of 1909 “ and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.

question: which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

answer: to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event