LINEAR PROGRAMMING CHOICE BOARD!

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Steamline Bicycles produces two kinds
The amphitheater has two types of
of bikes, mountain bikes and road bikes. Beach Cruises prints brochures and fliers
tickets available, reserved seats and
It takes 4 hours to build a mountain bike to advertise their dolphin watching tours.
lawn seats. The maximum capacity of
and 3 hours to build a road bike. The To print, the brochure requires three
the venue is 20,000 people, however,
company has 21 employees, each with pages while the flier requires two. They
they must sell at least 5,000 tickets for a
a 40 hour work week. Due to demand, are limited to 500 sheets of paper, but
concert to be held. As an additional
they must produce at least 250 total need to print at least 80 brochures and
constraint, the number of lawn seats
bikes each week. If they profit $75 on 100 fliers. Each brochure costs 10¢ to
cannot exceed the number of reserved
each mountain bike and $60 on each print and each flier costs 6¢ to print.
seats. If reserved seats profit $65 each
road bike, how many of each How many of each should they print
and lawn tickets profit $40 each, how
type should they produce in a week to minimize their cost?
many of each must they sell to
to maximize their profit?
maximize their profits?

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JP Computers produces both laptop Ben works for a software company in
The Polar Sports company manufactures
and desktop computers. Laptop Cleveland. To train new employees, Ben
both snowboards and skis. It takes 8
computers take up 2 cubic feet of travels to their two other locations, Buffalo
hours to manufacture a snowboard and
space and desktop computers take up and Philadelphia. A Buffalo trip takes two
10 hours to manufacture a set of skis.
5 cubic feet of space. The maximum days while a Philadelphia trip takes three
There are 400 hours of labor available
capacity on the delivery truck is 800 days. He can travel no more than 105
each week for production. Due to
cubic feet. Due to demand, they need days each year. Due to many new
demand, they must produce at least 15 employees this year, he must travel to
to load at least 300 laptop computers.
snowboards. Snowboards profit $55 Philadelphia at least 5 times and Buffalo at
They profit $225 on each laptop and
each and skis profit $80 each. How least 15 times. It costs the company $180
$280 on each desktop computer. How
many of each should they produce in a for each Buffalo trip and $300 for each
many of each should they load on the
week to maximize their profit? Philadelphia trip. How many times should
truck to maximize profit?
Ben travel to Buffalo and Philadelphia to
minimize costs to the company?

© Gina Wilson (All Things Algebra), 2015