The Total Weekly Profit (In Dollars) Realized by Country Workshop

question 121

Short Answer

The total weekly profit (in dollars) realized by Country Workshop in manufacturing and selling its rolltop desks is given by the profit function
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where x stands for the number of finished units and y denotes the number of unfinished units manufactured and sold each week. The company's management decides to restrict the manufacture of these desks to a total of exactly 200 units/week. How many finished and how many unfinished units should be manufactured each week to maximize the company's weekly profit?

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