Question: Express Movers Inc. ( EMI ) produces medium and large moving boxes. Each medium moving box requires 9 square feet of cardboard, while each large

Express Movers Inc. (EMI) produces medium and large moving boxes. Each medium moving box requires 9 square feet of cardboard, while each large moving box requires 12 square feet of cardboard. Cardboard is limited to 200,000 square feet daily. Each moving box must pass through two departments during the production process. The departments are cutting and assembly departments. In the cutting department, each medium box requires 0.01 labor hour and each large box requires 0.02 labor hours. In the assembly department, each medium box requires 0.04 labor hour and each large box requires 0.05 labor hours. Presently, cutting department has a maximum of 240 labor hours daily, and assembly department has a maximum of 885 labor hours daily that can be assigned to the production of the two types of boxes. Due to warehouse limitations, no more than 1000 large boxes can be made each day. Also, due to customer demand, at least 600 medium boxes must be produced. Medium boxes yield a profit of $5 each, and large ones yield $8 profit each. Formulate this problem as a linear programming (LP) model, to determine the number of each type of moving box EMI should produce daily, that will maximize profit for the company. (Only LP model formulation is asked for, following the three steps in the slides of the examples shown in the attached document).
 Express Movers Inc. (EMI) produces medium and large moving boxes. Each

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