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Your publishing company is about to start a promotional blitz for its new book, Physics for the Liberal Arts. You have 35 salespeople stationed in Chicago and 10 in Denver. You would like to fly at most 20 into Los Angeles and at most 20 into New York. A round-trip plane flight from Chicago to LA costs $195; from Chicago to NY costs $182; from Denver to LA costs $395; and from Denver to NY costs $166. You want to spend at most $7,380 on plane flights. How many salespeople should you fly from each of Chicago and Denver to each of LA and NY to have the most salespeople on the road ?


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