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Formulate and Solve the Following Linear Program

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Formulate and solve the following linear program.A firm wants to determine how many units of each of two products (products D and E)they should produce to make the most money.The profit in the manufacture of a unit of product D is $100 and the profit in the manufacture of a unit of product E is $87.Although the firm can readily sell any amount of either product,it is limited by its total labor hours and total machine hours available.The total labor hours per week are 4,000.Product D takes 5 hours of labor per unit and product E takes 7 hours of labor per unit.The total machine hours are 5,000 per week.Product D takes 9 hours of machine time per unit and product E takes 3 hours of machine time per unit.Write the constraints and the objective function for this problem,solve for the best mix of product D and E and report the maximum value of the objective function?

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