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An electronics dealer in Wote town wishes to purchase radios and TV sets. He can buy at most 30 of both items. On average, a...

An electronics dealer in Wote town wishes to purchase radios and TV sets. He can buy at most 30 of both items. On average, a radio and TV cost sh. 4000 and sh. 12000 respectively and he has sh. 240000 to spend. The number of TV sets should be at most twice the number of radios. He must buy more than 5 TV sets.
a)Form all inequalities to represent above information.
b)If the dealer makes a profit of sh.600 and sh.1000 per radio and TV set respectively, find the maximum possible profit.

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b)Objective function
600x + 100y = profit
(15, 15)
600(15) + 100(15)
= Sh. 24000

Kavungya answered the question on October 16, 2019 at 11:41

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