Question

A division of the Winston Furniture Company manufactures dining tables and chairs. Each table requires 40 board feet of wood and 3 labor-hours. Each chair requires 16 board feet of wood and 4 labor-hours. The profit for each table is $50, and the profit for each chair is $25. In a certain week, the company has 3200 board feet of wood available and 520 labor-hours available. How many tables and chairs should Winston manufacture to maximize its profit? (Let x represent the number of tables Winton manufactures and let y represent the number of chairs they manufacture.)

(x,y)= ( )

What is maximum profit? $_______.

Answer 1

this is classic linear algebra.
Can you at least define the function you wish to optimize?
Maybe then we can work out the constraints.