A company wishes to buy two types of squash machines; Electric and manual.

      

A company wishes to buy two types of squash machines; Electric and manual. A manual machine requires 4 attendants whereas an electric one requires two. An electric machine fills 300 packets per hour; a manual one can fill 200 packets per hour. At least 3000 packets need to be filled per hour and the number of attendants should not exceed 40.

a) Write down inequalities to describe these conditions and graph them.

b) If for every hour it is used, an electric machine brings a profit of shs. 200 and a manual one shs. 500, determine the number of machines of each type that should be installed in order to maximize profit per hour.

c) Find the maximum profit

  

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Wilfred
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Wilfykil answered the question on September 12, 2019 at 08:56


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