Distributor packages and sells two types of products, A and B. The respective sales prices for the products are $10 and $5. The distributor has enough storage capacity for 1000 total products. Packaging for product A requires 2 hours and for the product B requires 5 hours. The packaging budget allows for only 5000 hours of labor for packaging. This linear program can be formulated as ___.

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Amber Mejia

27 December, 09:25

Distributor packages and sells two types of products, A and B. The respective sales prices for the products are $10 and $5. The distributor has enough storage capacity for 1000 total products. Packaging for product A requires 2 hours and for the product B requires 5 hours. The packaging budget allows for only 5000 hours of labor for packaging. This linear program can be formulated as ___.

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Ruben Butler · Answer 1

Maximize 10A + 5B, such that, A > = 0, B > = 0, A + B < = 1000, 2A + 5B < = 5000

Explanation:

There are two aspects of the equation, one pertains to the storage capacity related to the Selling prices of A and B

The other one relates to the labor hours of A and B