Based on the profit contributions & constraints given in the information above, what is the pizza shop's expected profit if it produces at the optimal amount?
Based on the profit contributions & constraints given in the information above, what is the pizza shop's expected profit if it produces at the optimal amount?
Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Transcribed Image Text:A pizza shop sells two types of pizzas: Chicago-style and New
York-style. The owner makes $8.00 Profit on each Chicago-
style pizza pie & $5.50 Profit on each New York-style pizza
pie.
The owner would love to sell an unlimited amount of pizza but
unfortunately they are limited by two production constraints:
Prep Time and Cook Time.
Each Chicago-style pizza requires 4 minutes of Prep Time, each
New York-style pizza requires 3 minutes of Prep time, and
there is only 600 minutes of Prep Time available. Each
Chicago-style pizza requires 5 minutes of Cook Time, each
New York-style pizza requires 2.5 minutes of Cook Time, and
there is only 550 minutes of Cook Time available.
Based on the profit contributions & constraints given in the
information above, what is the pizza shop's expected profit if
it produces at the optimal amount?
$800
$1120
$1560
$1100
O $1320
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