Commercial orchard grows-picks and packs apples and pears

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A commercial orchard grows, picks and packs apples and pears. A peck of(quarter bushel) of apples takes four minutes to pick and five minutes to pack; a peck of pears takes five minutes to pick and four minutes to pack. Only one picker and one packer are available. How many pecks rack of apples and pears should be picked and packed every hour (60 minutes ) if the profit is $3/peck for apples and $2/peck for pears? Solve graphically as a linear program and confirm analytically.

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