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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.
Write the matrix
, being sure to label the rows and columns, and explain what it represents. Add the numbers in the corresponding entries.
Write the matrix
, with labels, and explain what it represents. Multiply each entry in matrix
by .
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