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7-156.

Shola's Bakery uses sugar, eggs, and butter in all of its cakes, as well as in the frosting. Matrix C shows how many eggs, cups of sugar, and ounces of butter are used in each angel food cake and in each devil's food cake. Matrix F shows how many eggs, cups of sugar, and ounces of butter are used in the frosting for each cake.

  1. Write the matrix , being sure to label the rows and columns, and explain what it represents.

    Add the numbers in the corresponding entries.

  2. Write the matrix , with labels, and explain what it represents.

    Multiply each entry in matrix by .

  1. Leora orders three angel food cakes and two devil's food cakes without frosting, as represented by the matrix L at right. Use matrix multiplication to write a matrix that shows how much sugar, eggs, and butter Shola will need to fill Leora's order.

Multilpy matrices and together to get matrix .