Gardens proposes to plant flower beds for the new YMCA. Bronk’s has three patterns for the bed arrangements. Pattern I uses 40 tulips, 25 daffodils, and 6 boxwood. Pattern II uses 25 tulips, 50 daffodils, and 5 boxwood. Pattern III uses 45 tulips, 50 daffodils, and 8 boxwood. The profit for each pattern is $47 for Pattern I, $38 for Pattern II, and $60 for Pattern III. Bronk’s gardens currently has 1280 tulips, 1700 daffodils, and 230 boxwood available. Find how many of beds of each pattern should be used by Bronk’s to maximize the profit. (a) Give only the objective function and state whether you are trying to maximize or minimize the objective function (do not solve the problem or give any of the other constraints). (b) Define your variables in the objective function given abov

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Bronk’s Gardens proposes to plant flower beds for the new YMCA. Bronk’s has three patterns for the bed arrangements. Pattern I uses 40 tulips, 25 daffodils, and 6 boxwood. Pattern II uses 25 tulips, 50 daffodils, and 5 boxwood. Pattern III uses 45 tulips, 50 daffodils, and 8 boxwood. The profit for each pattern is $47 for Pattern I, $38 for Pattern II, and $60 for Pattern III. Bronk’s gardens currently has 1280 tulips, 1700 daffodils, and 230 boxwood available. Find how many of beds of each pattern should be used by Bronk’s to maximize the profit.

(a) Give only the objective function and state whether you are trying to maximize or minimize the objective function (do not solve the problem or give any of the other constraints).

(b) Define your variables in the objective function given above:
 
 
 
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