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Hodges Baseball Equipment Company makes two types of specialized baseball gloves: a first baseman's model and a catcher's model. The firm has 900 hours of production time available in its cutting and sewing department, 300 hours available in its finishing and packaging department. The profit per first baseman's glove is $10 each and per catcher's glove is $15 each. Each first baseman's glove takes one hour of cutting and sewing time and one-half hour of finishing and packaging time. Each catcher's glove takes one and one-half hour of cutting and sewing time and three-quarters of an hour of finishing and packaging time.

Using linear programming (microsoft excel Solver) determine the combination of first baseman's gloves and catcher's glove that result in the maximum possible profit (calculate and show that profit).