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Description: United Airlines is looking to purchase new planes. Their budget is 1.4 billion dollars ($1,400 million) and they have 24 pilots available. Airbus offers a plane for $100 million that can seat 130 passengers and requires 2 pilots to fly. Boeing offers

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United Airlines is looking to purchase new planes. Their budget is 1.4 billion dollars ($1,400 million) and they have 24 pilots available. Airbus offers a plane for $100 million that can seat 130 passengers and requires 2 pilots to fly. Boeing offers a plane for $200 million that can seat 205 passengers and requires 3 pilots to fly. If United wants to fly the maximum amount of passengers at one time given their budget and pilot constraints, how many of each plane should United purchase? Use linear optimization.What is the objective function?

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