Answer to Question #218206 in Calculus for Ahmad

Question

a company in the wholesale trade selling sportswear and stocks two brands, a and b, of football kit, each consisting of a shirt, a pair of shorts and a pair of socks. the costs for brand a are sh.50 for a shirt, sh 30 for a pair of shorts and sh10 for a pair of socks and those for brand b are sh.60.25 for a shirt, sh.40 for a pair of shorts and sh.10 for a pair of socks. three customers x, y, z demand the following combinations of brands; x, 36 kits of brand a and 48 kits of brand b y, 24 kits of brand a and 72 kits of brand b z, 60 kits of branda required:i) express the costs of brands a and b in matrix form, then the demands of the customers, x,y and z in matrix form. (5 marks)ii) by forming the product of the two matrices that you obtain in the previous part, deduce the detailed costs to each of the customers. (5 marks)