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a farm co-op wants to grow corn and soubeans. Each acre of corn requires 7 gallons...

a farm co-op wants to grow corn and soubeans. Each acre of corn requires 7 gallons of fertilizer and 0.50 hours to harvest. each acre of soybeans requires 3 gallons of fertilizer and 1 hour to harvest. the co-op has available at most 40,500 gallons of fertilizer and 5,250 hours of labor for harvesting. if the peofits per acre are $50 for corn and $45 for soybeans, how many acres of each should the co-op plant to macimize their profit? what is the maximum profit?
use the graphical method to solve this linesr programming problem.

what is the objective equation?
what are the variables?
what are the constraint inequalities?
graoh the constraint equations by finding the intercept and show work.
find where the constraint inequalities intersect and show work.
why did you shade in the part of the graph that you did?
create a table with the corner points and the objective equation.

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