Question: Page 3. An order may include small boxes, medium boxes, and large boxes. Each small box weights one pound and costs $2. Each medium box

 Page 3. An order may include small boxes, medium boxes, and

Page 3. An order may include small boxes, medium boxes, and large boxes. Each small box weights one pound and costs $2. Each medium box weighs three pounds and costs $8. Finally each large box weighs four pounds and costs $11. A particular order weights 16 pounds and costs $41. It is a fact that the matrix: 1 3 4 16 2 8 11 41 row reduces to Keeping in mind that there must be a whole number of boxes, and that there cannot be a negative number of boxes, what are the possible numbers of small, medium, and large boxes in the order? JAN

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