Problema Solution
Maple grove wants to include two types of maple trees, the namesake of the city, for their parks. Two varieties of maple trees have been selected. One variety costs $75 per tree; the other more colorful variety costs $95 per tree. The tree budget must not exceed $85,000. Citizens want more of the colorful $95 trees than the others if possible. Let X be the number of $75 trees and Y the number of $95 trees. Which system of inequalities represents this situation?
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The system of inequalities that represents this situation is:
75x + 95y ≤ 85000
x ≤ y