Question 1155592: 8) A small company makes masks and gloves. Resources required are cloth and labour. The company has 350 square cm of cloth and 50 hours of labour available. Each mask requires 20 square cm of cloth and 2 hours of labour, whereas each glove requires 60 square cm of cloth and 4 hours of labour. The profit for a mask is $5, and the profit for a glove is $10. The company wants to determine the number of masks and gloves to make so that profit will be maximized. Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.
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8) A small company makes masks and gloves. Resources required are cloth and labour.
The company has 350 square cm of cloth and 50 hours of labour available.
Each mask requires 20 square cm of cloth and 2 hours of labour, whereas
each glove requires 60 square cm of cloth and 4 hours of labour.
The profit for a mask is $5, and the profit for a glove is $10.
The company wants to determine the number of masks and gloves to make so that profit will be maximized.
Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.
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Let x be the number of masks and y be the number of gloves.
The objective function to maximize is the profit P(x,y) = 5x + 10y dollars.
The constraints are
20x + 60y <= 350 square cm of cloths;
2x + 4y <= 50 hours;
x >= 0, y >= 0.
The setups is just completed.
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