Statistics question

Question

The furniture is produced on a weekly basis and stored in the warehouse until the end of the week, when
it is shipped out. The warehouse has a total capacity of 650 pieces of furniture. Each sofa earns $300 in
profit, each table $200, and each chair $150. The company wants to know how many pieces of each type
of furniture to make per week to maximize profit. The worksheet named “Hickory 1” contains a template
for solving this LP problem.

Answer 1

Hello Reginald,

It seems like there may be another piece of information that is missing.  As it is now, since sofas earn the most profit, it would maximize profit to only make 650 couches for $300 each to earn $195,000, and to make 0 tables and chairs.

Were there any other restrictions regarding storage capacity based on furniture type, storage cost, or demand?  If so, they would change the way you compute the answer.