Question

An apple pie uses 4 cups of apples and 3 cups of flour. An apple cobbler uses 2 cups of apples and 3 cups of flour. You have 16 cups of apples and 15 cups of flour. When you sell these at the Farmer’s Market you make $3.00 profit per apple pie and $2.00 profit per apple cobbler. Use linear programming to determine how many apple pies and how many apple cobblers you should make to maximize your profit.

Answer 1

Well if your just gonna due apple pie, you will use all the apples and have 2 cups of flour left over to get $12.

For apple cobbler you will have 6 cups of apples and no flour left over to get $10.

For both you would have 3 apple pies to get $9 and 2 apple cobblers to get $4 the total would be $13. This would be the greatest amount.