let's go w/retail prices of
$9.25 for the brick, with a profit of $3.17
$13.00 for the egyptian with a profit of $4.40
Let's say management says you get to spend $1000 on this promotion
we have non-negative variables b and e which are the number of bricks and egyptians you want to produce for the promotion.
we want to produce at least say 10 each because we want to see how they'll sell.
We have the following constraints
\(b \geq 10\\ e \geq 10\\ 6.08 b + 8.60e \leq 1000 \\ \text{and we want to maximize the profit }\\ p=3.17b + 4.40e\)
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