Microbucks Computers Makes Two Computers, the Pomegranate II and the Pomegranate

question 83

Essay

Microbucks Computers makes two computers, the Pomegranate II and the Pomegranate Classic, at two different factories. The Pom II requires 2 processor chips, 18 memory chips, and 40 vacuum tubes, and the Pom Classic requires 1 processor chip, 2 memory chips, and 30 vacuum tubes. At the beginning of the year, Microbucks has in stock 600 processor chips, 9,000 memory chips, and 14,000 vacuum tubes at the Pom II factory and 500 processor chips, 2,000 memory chips, and 40,000 vacuum tubes at the Pom Classic factory. It manufactures 50 Pom IIs and 50 Pom Classics each month.
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Find the company's inventory of parts after 2 months, using matrix operations.
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Please enter your answer as a matrix in the following form (Do not use commas.):
​ $\left[ \begin{array} { c c c c } \text { Pom II processors Pom II memorychips Pom II vacuum tubes } \\\text { Pom } C \text { processors Pom } C \text { memorychips Pom } C \text { vacuum tubes }\end{array} \right]$

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