A furniture manufacturer produces tables and bookshelves made up of wood and steel. The weekly requirement of wood and steel is given as below.
Product | Wood | Steel |
Table | 8 | 2 |
Bookshelf | 11 | 3 |
The weekly availability of wood and steel is 450 and 100 units respectively. Profit on a table is
and that on a bookshelf is
. To determine the number of tables and bookshelves to be produced every week in order to maximize the total profit, formulate the problem as L.P.P.
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: Given
and
units of tables and bookshelves are produced.
Profit on one table is 
Profit on
tables is 
Profit on one bookshelf is 
Profit on
bookshelves is ₹ 
Total profit, 
Product |
| Table |
| Bookshelf | Availability | ||||||
Table | |||||||||||
Bookshelf | |||||||||||
Waterial | 8 | 11 | 450 | ||||||||
Wteel | 2 | 3 | 100 |
Constraints are
, 
Given problem can be formulated as
Maximize 
Subject to,
.
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