SOLUTION: Sponge Bob and Patrick are baking pumpkin bread and pumpkin cookies for the fall bake sale. They only have 36 cups of sugar, 14 pumpkin

Question 1168885: Sponge Bob and Patrick are baking pumpkin bread and pumpkin cookies for the fall bake sale. They only have 36 cups of sugar, 14 pumpkins, and 15 cups of flour. Each loaf of bread uses 4 cups of sugar , 2 pumpkins, and 1 cup of flour. Each dozen cookies use 6 cups of sugar , 1 pumpkin and 3 cups of flour . If each loaf of bread makes $10, and each dozen cookies makes $8, how many of each should they make to maximize the profit , and what is the maximum profit?
Answer by Solver92311(821) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let

represent the number loaves, and let

represent the number of dozens of cookies.

Maximize:

Subject to Constraints:

Graph each of the constraint inequalities on the same set of coordinate axes.

Find the vertices of the feasibility polygon which is the intersection of the solution sets of all constraints. Test the coordinates of each of the vertices in the objective function,

.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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