A fair-trade farmers' cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico, is deciding how much coffee and cocoa to recommend to their members to plant. Their 1,000 member families have 7,500 total acres to farm. Because of the geography of the region, 2,450 acres are suitable only for growing coffee and 1,230 acres are suitable only for growing cocoa. A coffee crop produces 30 lb/acre and a crop of cocoa produces 40 lb/acre. The cooperative has the resources to ship a total of 270,000 lb of product to the United States. Fair-trade organizations mandate a minimum price of $1.26 per pound for organic coffee and $0.98 per pound for organic cocoa (note that price is per pound, not per acre). How many acres of each crop should the cooperative recommend planting in order to maximize income?

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These coffee beans are growing in the Mexican state of Chiapas