Clay and his friend Lacey are making cookies for the school dance. Clay started early and has already made 3 dozen cookies. He can make an additional 2 dozen cookies an hour. Lacey has not started making cookies yet, but she has a bigger oven and can make 4 dozen cookies an hour. If Lacey starts baking her cookies right away, how long will it take for her to have made as many cookies as Clay? How many cookies will they each have made?
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If Lacey starts baking her cookies right away, then the time is taken for her to have made as many cookies as Clay will be 1.5 hours.

What is the linear system?

A linear system is one in which the parameter in the equation has a degree of one. It might have one, two, or even more variables.

Clay and his friend Lacey are making cookies for the school dance.

Clay started early and has already made 3 dozen cookies.

He can make an additional 2 dozen cookies an hour.

Lacey has not started making cookies yet, but she has a bigger oven and can make 4 dozen cookies an hour.

Let y be the number of the cookies (in dozen) and x be the number of the hours.

Then the equations will be

y = 2x + 3 ...1

y = 4x ...2

If Lacey starts baking her cookies right away, then the time taken for her to have made as many cookies as Clay will be

From equations 1 and 2, we have

2x + 3 = 4x

2x = 3

x = 1.5

Then the number of hours will be 1.5 hours.

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