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A Company Has Three Treatments That It Can Apply Three

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A company has three treatments that it can apply three different types of clothes namely denims, linens and suiting yielding the profit $4, $5, and $8 per bolt respectively. One bolt of denims requires 2 hours in Treatment 1, 3 hours in Treatment 2 and 4 hours in Treatment 3. Similarly one bolt of linens requires 3 hours in Treatment 1, 2 hours in Treatment 2 and 4 hours in Treatment 3 while one bolt suiting requires 2 hours in Treatment 1, 3 hours in Treatment 2 and 4 hours in Treatment 3. In a week, total run time of each department is 80 hours, 90 hours, and 65 hours for Treatment 1, Treatment 2 and Treatment 3 respectively.

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Let

D1 number of bolts of denims with Treatment 1
D2 number of bolts of denims with Treatment 2
D3 number of bolts of denims with Treatment 3
.
.
.
S3 number of bolts of Suiting with Treatment 3
Max $4(DW + DI + DP) + $5(LW + LI + LP) +$8(SW + SI + SP)
s.t.

2D1 + 3L1 + 3S1 ≤ 80
3D2 + 2L2 + 3S2 ≤ 90
4D3 + 4L3 + 3S3 ≤ 65
D1, D2, D3, …, S3 ≥ 0

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