A dietician prescribes a special dietary plan using two different foods. Each ounce of food X contains
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A dietician prescribes a special dietary plan using two different foods. Each ounce of food X contains 180 milligrams of calcium, 6 milligrams of iron, and 220 milligrams of magnesium. Each ounce of food Y contains 100 milligrams of calcium, 1 milligram of iron, and 40 milligrams of magnesium. The minimum daily requirements of the diet are 1000 milligrams of calcium, 18 milligrams of iron, and 400 milligrams of magnesium.
(a) Write and graph a system of inequalities that describes the different amounts of food X and food Y that can be prescribed.
(b) Find two solutions of the system and interpret their meanings in the context of the problem.
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