A new restaurant is to contain two seat tables and four seat tables. Fire codes limit the restaurants maximum occupancy to 52 customers. If the owners have hired enough servers to handle 23 tables of customers, how many of each kind of table should they purchase?
They need 19 two-seat tables and 4 four-seat tables. There are 52 customers when all seats are filled and there are 23 tables for the waiter to serve. The problem is solved.