Question

15 An appliance store sells two brands of televisions. Each Daybrite set sells for $425, and each Noglare set sells for $700. The store’s warehouse capacity for television sets is $400, and new sets are delivered only each month. Records show that customers will buy at least 70 Daybrite sets and at least 160 Noglare sets each month. How many of each brand should the store stock and sell each month to maximize revenue?

The store should stock and sell _ Daybrite sets and _ Noglare sets.

Answer 1

If there are x Daybrite sets and y Noglare sets, then you want to

maximize p=425x+700y subject to
x+y <= 400
x >= 70
y >= 160

a good tool is at

http://www.zweigmedia.com/RealWorld/LPGrapher/lpg.html

it will solve and graph the solution