Soccer Park Concessions Beatrice runs the concession stands for a city soccer park. The

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Soccer Park Concessions Beatrice runs the concession stands for a city soccer park. The park has four concession stands that are referred to by their directional location within the park. Each stand offers a limited menu of hotdogs, nachos, pretzels, and bottled water. The table shows the number of items sold at each stand on the first Saturday in October. Bottled HotDogs Nachos Pretzels Water North Stand 50 26 18 71 South Stand 30 20 12 50 East Stand 26 22 14 48 West Stand 35 38 21 76 (a) Write the information in the table as a matrix A. (b) A tournament will be held at the park on the second Saturday in October, so Beatrice anticipates that the number of items sold at each stand that day will increase by 40%. Write a matrix B that represents the number of items by stand that Beatrice anticipates needing. (c) Find and state what the entries of represent.