Exercise 1 Usage of free production capacity A factory has ended a non-profitable production line. As a result, there is a reasonable amount
of free production capacity available. The management team considers to use this capacity for
manufacturing one or more of the products A, B and C. Before a product can be sold it has to be
treated by 3 machines. The table below shows the available capacity per machine and the amount
of hours required to manufacture a product:
Machine type Available capacity Product A Product B Product C
(hours per week)
Machine 1
500
9
3
5
Machine 2
350
5
4
0
Machine 3
150
3
0
2
It is expected that each unit of product A and B that is manufactured can be sold, while the
number of sales of product C is at most 20 units per week. The profit per unit is 50, 20 and 25 Euro
for product A, B and C, respectively. The manufacturing team wants to maximize total profit.
Formulate this problem as a linear programming problem and explain which decision variables are
used.

For problems 7–10, state a reasonable domain for the problem statement, find the inverse function f –1(x), and identify the independent and dependent quantities of the inverse. 7. gary is jogging. the total distance he has traveled, in miles, can be estimated using the function f(x) = 9x, where x is his jogging time in hours. 8. camryn sells computers. she earns commission for her computer sales plus a fixed wage for each day she works. her daily earnings, in dollars, can be estimated using the function f(x) = 0.15x + 50, where x represents her computer sales in dollars. 9. the distance a motorboat travels, in meters, can be estimated using the equation f(x) = 1.9x2, wherexisthetimeinseconds,for0≤x≤10. 10. a rock band is selling tickets to a concert at a theater. the band earns money for each ticket sold, but has to pay some of the earnings to the theater. the total money earned by the band can be estimated using the function f(x) = 7.5x – 300, where x is the number of tickets sold.