Amanufacturer of a line of patentmedicines is preparing a production plan on medicines A and B. there are sufficient ingredients available to make 20,000 bottles of A and 40,000 bottles of B but thereare only 45,000 bottlesintowhich both medicines can be put. Furthermore,it takes 3hours toprepare enough material to fill 1,000 bottlesof A, it takes 1 hour to prepare enough material to fill 1,000 bottlesof B andthere are 66 hours available for  this operation. The profit is K8 perbottle for A and K7per bottle for B. formulate the problem as a linear programming problem.

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Amanufacturer of a line of patentmedicines is preparing a production plan on medicines A and B. there are sufficient ingredients available to make 20,000 bottles of A and 40,000 bottles of B but thereare only 45,000 bottlesintowhich both medicines can be put. Furthermore,it takes 3hours toprepare enough material to fill 1,000 bottlesof A, it takes 1 hour to prepare enough material to fill 1,000 bottlesof B andthere are 66 hours available for 
this operation. The profit is K8 perbottle for A and K7per bottle for B. formulate the problem as a linear programming problem.

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