A manufacturer produces aluminum and bronze stock for milling. Aluminum costs $0.25
for each pound and each pound of bronze costs $0.31 to produce. Each pound of
aluminum takes 0.1 hours of labor and each pound of bronze requires 0.13 hours to
produce. The budget is set at $3,490 and there are 240 hours of labor available each day.
We want to determine the amount of aluminum and bronze to produce in order to meet
the constraints exactly. The variables would be defined as follows:
Ox= price of aluminum ($), y price of bronze ($)
Ox-aluminum, y = bronze
Ox= time to produce aluminum (hrs), y time to produce bronze (hrs)
Ox=# of lbs. of aluminum, y = # of lbs. of bronze