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A company makes 2 kinds of leather belts. Belt A is high quality belt and belt B is lower quality. The respective profits are AED 4 and AED 3 per belt. The production of each type A requires twice as much time as belt of type B. and if all belts were of type B, the company could make 1000 belts per day. The supply of leather is sufficient for only 800 belts per day.
Belt A requires a fancy buckle and only 400of these are available per day. There are only 700 buckles a day available for belt B. What should be the daily production of each type of belts? Formulate this problem as LP model and solve itby simplex method.

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company makes 2 kinds of leather belts. Belt A is high quality belt and belt B is lower quality. The respective profits are AED 4 and AED 3 per belt. The production of each type A requires twice as much time as belt of type B. and if all belts were of type B, the company could make 1000 belts per day. The supply of leather is sufficient for only 800 belts per day.

Belt A requires a fancy buckle and only 400of these are available per day. There are only 700 buckles a day available for belt B. What should be the daily production of each type of belts? Formulate this problem as LP model and solve itby simplex method