Question: please solve it by hand no excel 3. Blending A federal regulation required that the average of the miles per gallon computed over all automobiles

please solve it by hand no excel
please solve it by hand no excel 3. Blending A
3. Blending A federal regulation required that the average of the miles per gallon computed over all automobiles sold by an automobile company in a specific year be at least 23 miles per gallon. Let us consider a hypothetical case for the Ford Motor Company. Assume that Ford sold only the four car types: Crown Victoria, Taurus, Escort, and Fiesta. Various parameters of theses cars are listed below: CAR MILES/GALLON MARGINAL SELLING PRICE PRODUCT COST Fiesta 33 7000 8500 Escort 26 10250 13250 Taurus 24 15000 19500 Crown Vic. 13 23000 28500 There is some flexibility in the production facilities so capacities may apply to pairs of car types. These limitations are: YEARLY CAPACITY CAR TYPES LIMITED IN UNITS 1,000,000 Fiesta 3,000,000 Taurus plus Escorts 2,000,000 Crown Vic. plus Taurus There is a sales capacity limit of 4,500,000 on the total of all cars sold. How many of each car type should Ford plan to sell

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