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1. Finer Furniture produces three types of furniture - tables, chairs, and bookcases. The production of each of these involves both a carpentry process and a finishing process. The time required in each of these as well as lumber requirements in each product are given below:

Table Chair Bookcase Amount available
Lumber 6 ft. 2 ft. 8 ft. 200 feet
Carpentry 3 hr. 2 hr. 3 hr.
Finishing 2 hr. 1 hr. 1 hr. 40 ho

The profit generated by each table is $40, by each chair is $30, and by each bookcase is $35. The company wishes to get the maximum profit possible, and a linear program is to be developed for this purpose.

a) Carefully define the decision variables.

b) Set up the linear program.

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This solution explains how to find the decision variables and create a linear program for Finer Furniture.

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Problem #1

(a) We can assume that the company will produce x tables, y chairs and z bookcases.
Then x, y, z become the decision variables.

(b) The linear ...

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