Conditions for Parallel Resource Models
An operations manager is comparing two linear models that represent resource consumption for two different projects. If the manager determines that the system of equations has 'no solution' and the lines will never meet, what two specific conditions must be true about the slopes and the y-intercepts of the two linear equations?
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