een Vehicle​ Inc., manufactures electric cars and small delivery trucks. It has just opened a new factory where the C1 car and the T1 truck can both be manufactured. To make either​ vehicle, processing in the assembly shop and in the paint shop are required. It takes ​1/40 of a day and

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Green Vehicle​ Inc., manufactures electric cars and small delivery trucks. It has just opened a new factory where the C1 car and the T1 truck can both be manufactured. To make either​ vehicle, processing in the assembly shop and in the paint shop are required. It takes
​1/40
of a day and
​1/75
of a day to paint a truck of type T1 and a car of type C1 in the paint​ shop, respectively. It takes
​1/45
of a day to assemble either type of vehicle in the assembly shop.
 
A T1 truck and a C1 car yield profits of
$275
and
$225​,
​respectively, per vehicle sold.
 
The aim of the objective function for Green Vehicle Inc. should be to
Maximize
 
the objective value.
The optimum solution​ is:
Number of trucks to be produced per day​ =
nothing
​(round your response to two decimal​ places).
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