Question

Tiffany sells two kinds of homemade tomato sauce. A quart of her Tuscan sauce requires 6 tomatoes and 1 cup of oil. A quart of her marinara sauce requires 5 tomatoes and 1 1/4 cups of oil. She makes $4 profit on each quart of her Tuscan sauce and $5 profit on each quart of her marinara sauce. She has 45 tomatoes and 10 cups of oil on hand. Tiffany wants to maximize their profits from selling the sauce.
Let x represent the number of quarts of Tuscan sauce and y represent the number of quarts of marinara sauce Tiffany makes.

What are the constraints for the problem

Answer 1

The constraints for the problem is the number of tomatoes and cups of oil on hand. 

There are only 45 tomatoes and 10 cups of oil on hand to make both the Tuscan sauce and Marinara sauce. 

These are identified as constraints because they limit the number of Tuscan sauce and Marinara sauce that Tiffany can make.