Essay
A company makes products A and B from 2 resources, labor and material. The company wants to determine the selling price which will maximize profits. A unit of A costs 30 to make and demand is estimated to be 50 − 0.09 * Price of A. A unit of B costs 20 to make and demand is estimated to be 30 − 0.14 * Price of B. The utilization of labor and materials and the available quantity of resources is shown in the table. A reasonable price for the products is between 90 and 140. Let X1 = demand for As and X2 = demand for Bs.
Let P1 = price for As and P2 = price for Bs.
The NLP for the problem is: What values should go in cells B3:E18 of the spreadsheet for this problem?
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