OCR MEI D1 2010 January — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleD1 (Decision Mathematics 1)
Year2010
SessionJanuary
TopicInequalities

4 An air charter company has the following rules for selling seats on a flight.
  1. The total number of seats sold must not exceed 120.
  2. There must be at least 100 seats sold, or the flight will be cancelled.
  3. For every child seat sold there must be a seat sold for a supervising adult.
    1. Define two variables so that the three constraints can be formulated in terms of your variables. Formulate the three constraints in terms of your variables.
    2. Graph your three inequalities from part (i).
    The price for a child seat is \(\pounds 50\) and the price for an adult seat is \(\pounds 100\).
  4. Find the maximum income available from the flight, and mark and label the corresponding point on your graph.
  5. Find the minimum income available from a full plane, and mark and label the corresponding point on your graph.
  6. Find the minimum income available from the flight, and mark and label the corresponding point on your graph.
  7. At \(\pounds 100\) for an adult seat and \(\pounds 50\) for a child seat the company would prefer to sell 100 adult seats and no child seats rather than have a full plane with 60 adults and 60 children. What would be the minimum price for a child's seat for that not to be the case, given that the adult seat price remains at \(\pounds 100\) ?