A leather shop makes custom-designed, hand-made briefcases and luggage. The shop makes a $400 profit from each briefcase and a $200 profit from each piece of luggage. The shop has a contract to provide a store with exactly 30 items per month. A tannery supplies the shop with at least 80 sq yards of leather per month. (The shop must purchase at least this amount but can order more.) Each briefcase requires 2 sq. yards of leather; each piece of luggage requires 8 sq yards of leather. From past performance, the shop owners know they can make no more than 20 briefcases per month. They want to know the number of briefcases and pieces of luggage to produce in order to maximize profit. Give the linear programming model for this problem. Solve using the Management Scientist or Excel.

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To create a linear programming model for this problem lets define the decision variables Let B be th... View the full answer