A shipping company is buying new trucks. The high-capacity trucks cost $50,000 and hold 320 cases of

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A shipping company is buying new trucks. The high-capacity trucks cost $50,000 and hold 320 cases of merchandise. The low-capacity trucks cost $30,000 and hold 200 cases of merchandise. The company has budgeted $1,080,000 for the new trucks and has a maximum of 30 people qualified to drive the trucks. Due to availability limitations, the company can purchase at most 15 high-capacity trucks. How many of each type of truck should the company purchase to maximize the number of cases of merchandise that can be shipped simultaneously?
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Finite Mathematics and Its Applications

ISBN: 978-0134768632

12th edition

Authors: Larry J. Goldstein, David I. Schneider, Martha J. Siegel, Steven Hair

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