General property of linear programming problems

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In the PAR Inc. example from chapter 2, the solutions were not integer values. Does this make sense for this application? Is this a general property of Linear Programming problems? Explain why rounding or truncating non-integer values for the solutions is not an appropriate method for obtaining integer solutions.

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