Linear programming questions | form four Basic Mathematics

A girl wishes to buy skirts for herself. A white skirt costs 2,400/= per piece, while a coloured one costs
3,000/=. She intends to buy at most four white skirts. If she is prepared to spend up to 48,000/= in her  shopping, find the largest number of skirts she can buy.

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Tea leaves are packed in packets of 20g, 50g and 90g. Find the smallest amount of tea leaves needed to give a whole number of packets of each size.

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A bread dealer can buy up to 150 loaves of bread. Premium bread costs 200/= per loaf and Royal bread costs 250/= per loaf. The dealer can spend not more than 36,000/=  in the business. Premium bread sells at a profit of 40/= per loaf while, Royal bread sells at a profit of 50% per loaf. How many loaves of bread of each type should the dealer buy in order to generate a maximum profit?.

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By shading the unrequired part, show the region represented by the following set of inequalities:



and

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A manufacturer has 150 and 90 kilograms of wood and plastic respectively. Product A requires 1 kg
of wood and 2 kg of plastic. Product B requires 3 kg of wood and 1 kg of plastic. If A is sold for
Tsh. 4000/= and B for Tsh. 6000/=, how many of each should be made to obtain the maximum gross
income?

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