Question: Calculate the below using linear programming. Malek started by saying I am in charge of shipping and receiving. Our orders are brought in every morning

Calculate the below using linear programming. Malek started by saying I am in charge of shipping and receiving. Our orders are brought in every morning by our own trucks. The same trucks pick up finished jobs for delivery in the afternoon. We have three trucks: a 10-footer, a 15-footer and a 20-footer, which is newer and can cover out of town up to Milton. Our 10-footer handles 36 orders, the 15-footer can do 56 and the 20-footer can do up to 76 orders a day.
You asked Malek about the cost of delivery for these trucks. Well, lets see, replied Malek picking a pile of invoices and going through them considering the salary of drivers, fuel, repairs and other odds and ends, the 10-footer takes roughly $16 for rubber mat jobs and $12 for plush jobs. The 15-footer takes away $16 for rubber mat or runner jobs and $20 for plush jobs respectively. The 20-footer grabs $18 for rubber mats or runners and $22 for plush jobs. You asked him if he has had any issues with them and he said: Currently we use these trucks in no particular order and ball park we spend $3500 a day. I would like to know if we can do better. I wonder how we can assign orders to them to bring our cost down.

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