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OpenStax, Algebra and Trigonometry 2e §11.6 Solving Systems with Gaussian Elimination · Exercise 61 · Linear Algebra · Matrices

Solving Systems with Gaussian Elimination · Exercise 61

Set up the augmented matrix that describes the situation, and solve for the desired solution.

At an ice cream shop, three flavors are increasing in demand. Last year, banana, pumpkin, and rocky road ice cream made up 12% of total ice cream sales. This year, the same three ice creams made up 16.9% of ice cream sales. The rocky road sales doubled, the banana sales increased by 50%, and the pumpkin sales increased by 20%. If the rocky road ice cream had one less percent of sales than the banana ice cream, find out the percentage of ice cream sales each individual ice cream made last year.

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OpenStax, Algebra and Trigonometry 2e · §11.6 Solving Systems with Gaussian Elimination · Exercise 61

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