1.

The container of a breakfast cereal usually lists the number of calories and the
amounts of protein, carbohydrate, and fat contained in one serving of the cereal. The
amounts for two common cereals are given below. Suppose a mixture of these two
cereals is to be prepared that contains exactly 295 calories, 9 g of protein, 48 g of
carbohydrate, and 8 g of fat.
a. Set up a system of linear equations and include what the variables in your equation
represent.
b. Write an equivalent augmented matrix, and then determine if the desired mixture of
the two cereals can be prepared.

110x+130y=295 a. x[110;4;20;2]+y[130;3;18;5]=[295;9;48;8]
4x+3y=9 b. x=1.5, y=1
20x+18y=48
2x+5y=8

Mix 1.5 servings of cherrios with 1 serving of natural cereal to get the appropriate
mixture.
2. Balance the chemical equation using linear algebra.
CaCl2+Na3PO4→Ca3(PO4)2+NaCl

3. The accompanying figure shows a network of one-way streets with traffic flowing
in the directions indicated. The flow rates along the streets are measured as the
average number of vehicles per hour.
a. Set up a linear system whose solution provides the unknown flow rates.
b. Solve the system for the unknown flow rates.

a.
A. 500+300=x1=x4 x1+x3=
B. x1+x4=x2+200 x1-x2+x4=200
C. x2+100=x5+600 x2-x5=500
D. x5+450=x7+400 x5-x7=-50
E. x7+600=x4+x6 -x4-x6+x7=-600
F. x3+x6=35+400
b.
x1-x6=50>>x1-s=50

x2-x7=450>>x2-t=450

x3+x6=750>>x3+s=750

x4+x6-x7=600>>x4+s-t=600

x5-x7=-50>>x5-t=-50

Free variable x6=s, x7=t

4. Find the cubic polynomial whose graph passes through the points (−1,−1), (0, 1),
(1, 3), (4,−1).
The cubic polymonial is p(x)=1+(13/6)x-(1/6)x3