In: Advanced Math
A certain bookstore chain has two stores, one in San Francisco and one in Los Angeles. It stocks three kinds of book: hardcover, softcover, and plastic (for infants). At the beginning of January, the central computer showed the following books in stock.
Hard | Soft | Plastic | |
San Francisco | 2,000 | 3,000 | 6,000 |
Los Angeles | 1,000 | 5,000 | 2,000 |
Suppose its sales in January were as follows: 200 softcover, 400
hardcover, and 400 plastic books sold in Los Angeles, and 1,300
softcover books, 1,900 plastic books, and 600 hardcover books sold
in San Francisco.
(a) Write the given inventory table as a 2 ✕ 3 matrix.
Hard | Soft | Plastic | |
San Francisco | |||
Los Angeles |
(b) Write the given sales figures as a similar matrix.
Hard | Soft | Plastic | |
San Francisco | |||
Los Angeles |
(c) Compute the inventory remaining in each store at the end of
January.
Hard | Soft | Plastic | |
San Francisco | |||
Los Angeles |