A manufacturer makes two products, bottles and cups which must be processed through two machines centers. Machine center 1 has up to 60 hours available and machine center 2 handle up to 2880 minutes. Manufacturing one bottle requires 240 minutes in machine center 1 and 2 hours in machine center 2. Each cup requires 120 minutes in machine center 1 and 4 hours in machine center 2. Moreover, each bottle yields a profit of R8 and each cup generates R6 for profit.

What is the best combination of bottles and cups that will yield the optimum profit? 

 

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SOLUTION To determine the best combination of bottles and cups that will yield the optimum profit we need to consider the available machine hours in both machine centers and the profit generated by ea... View the full answer