Question

Mallory Furniture buys two products for resale: big shelves (B) and medium shelves (M). Each big shelf costs $500 and requires 100 cubic feet of storage space, and each medium shelf costs $300 and requires 90 cubic feet of storage space. The company has $75,000 to invest in shelves this week, and the warehouse has 18,000 cubic feet available for storage. Profit for each big shelf is $300 and for each medium shelf is $150. If the Mallory Furniture company decides to purchase 150 big shelves and no medium shelves, which of the two resources will be left over?

Answer 1

3,000 cubic feet left of storage.

Step-by-step explanation:

Giving the following information:

Big shelves (B):

Each big shelf costs $500.

It requires 100 cubic feet of storage space.

Medium shelves (M):

Each medium shelf costs $300

It requires 90 cubic feet of storage space.

The company has $75,000 to invest in shelves.

The warehouse has 18,000 cubic feet available for storage.

Mallory purchase 150 big shelves.

Amount of money= 150* 500= $75,000 (no money left).

Cubic feet= 150* 100= 15,000 cubic feets

3,000 cubic feet left of storage.