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A furniture manufacturer produces two types of tables – countryand contemporary – using three types of machines. The time requiredto produce the tables on each machine is given in the followingtable:

Machine

Country

Contemporary

Total Machine Time

Available Per Week

Router

2.5

3.0

1,000

Sander

3.5

5.5

2,000

Polisher

2.0

1.0

1,500

Country tables sell for $395 and contemporary tables sell for$515.   Management has determined that at least 25% ofthe tables made should be country and at least 38% should becontemporary. How many of each type of table should the companymanufacture if it wants to maximize its revenue?

  1. Formulate an LP model for this problem
  2. Create the spreadsheet model and use Solver to solve theproblem.

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Letx1 number of country tables to make and x2 number ofcontemporary tables to    See Answer
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