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A logging company has one saw with which it makes plywood and pressure-treated wood. Each piece of plywood requires 20 minutes on the saw and uses 6 eight-foot logs. Each piece of pressure-treated wood requires 20 minutes on the saw and uses 1 eight-foot log. The saw is available 10 hours a day, and the logging company can obtain 200 eight-foot logs a day. The plywood sells for $50 each, and the pressure-treated wood sells for $10 each. Find the maximum solution.

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144 words of explained calculations on the maximum solution of a logging company's treatment of plywood.

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Let X represent the number of plywood and Y represent the number of pressure-treated wood
The objective function is to maximize z=50X+10Y
with restrict to
(1) 20X+20Y<=600 (10 hour = 600 minutes)
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