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Homework Statement
A company makes two models of light fixtures, A and B, each of which must be assembled and packed. The time required to Assemble model A is 12 minutes, and model B takes 18 minutes. It takes 2 minutes to package model A and 1 minute to package model B. Each week there are an available 240 hours of assembly time and 20 hours for packaging.
If model A sells for $1.50 and model B sells for $1.70, how many of each model should be made to obtain the maximum weekly income?
Homework Equations
I remember doing problems like this in Algebra II last year. Unfortunately, I completely forget how to set up problems like this.
The Attempt at a Solution
I can't think of a way to solve it. I don't have my notes from last year either .
All I really need is the method to solving this type of problem.
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