For a given week, Jessica's Coffee House has available 1584 ounces of A grade coffee and 1536 ounces of B grade coffee. These are blended into 1-pound
packages as follows: an economy blend that contains 3 ounces of A grade coffee
and 8 ounces of B grade coffee, and a superior blend that contains 9
ounces of
A grade coffee and 3 ounces of B grade coffee. (The remainder of each blend is made of
filler ingredients.) There is a $3 profit on each economy blend package
sold and a $2 profit on each superior blend package sold. Assuming that the
coffee house is able to sell as many blends as it makes, how many packages of
each blend should it make to maximize its profit for the week?
Note that the ALEKS graphing calculator can be used to make computations easier.
Economy blend:
Superior blend:
package(s)
package(s)
