Question

A carpenter makes tables and chairs. Each table can be sold for a profit of Rs70

and each chair for a profit of Rs.100. The carpenter can afford to spend up to 80

hours per week working and takes 4 hours to make a table and 3 hours to make

a chair. Customer demand requires that he makes at least 2 times as many chairs

as tables. Tables take up 3 times as much storage space as chairs and there is

room for at most 5 tables each week. Formulate this problem as a linear

programming problem.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

A carpenter makes tables and chairs. Each table can be sold for a profit of £30 and each chair for a profit of £10. The carpenter can afford to spend up to 40 hours per week working and takes six hours to make a table and three hours to make a chair. Customer demand requires that he makes at least three times as many chairs as tables. Tables take up four times as much storage space as chairs and there is room for at most four tables each week.