Question: Eagle Packaging Company (EPC) makes medium and large packaging boxes. Each medium packaging box requires 9 square feet of cardboard, while each large packaging box

Eagle Packaging Company (EPC) makes medium and
Eagle Packaging Company (EPC) makes medium and large packaging boxes. Each medium packaging box requires 9 square feet of cardboard, while each large packaging box requires 11 square feet of cardboard. Each box must pass through fabricating and assembly departments. In the fabricating department, each medium box requires 0.15 labor hour and each large box requires 0.2 labor hours. In the assembly department, each box requires 0.25 labor hour regardless of size. Presently, fabricating department has a maximum of 45 labor hours daily, and assembly department has a maximum of 30 labor hours daily that can be assigned to the production of the two types of boxes. Cardboard is limited to 900 square feet daily. Due to warehouse limitations, no more than 100 large boxes can be made each day. Also, due to customer demand, at least 35 medium boxes must be produced. Medium boxes yield a profit of $13 each, and large ones yield $17 profit each. Formulate this problem as a linear programming model, to determine the number of each type of packaging box to produce daily, that will maximize profit for EPC

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