A jewelry manufacturer wants to produce two kinds of bracelets, A and B, with different amounts of silver and copper in their alloy. Also, manufacturing the bracelets takes different amounts of time, because one of the two bracelets is clearly more complicated.

Below is a table of the resources involved.

Units Input Product A Product B Silver 4 12 Copper 5 2 Manufacturing time 3 5 The company has a series of constraints:
●● Only 15 units of silver are available.
●● Only 10 units of copper are available.
●● Only 10 units of manufacturing time are available.
The expected profit is 1,500 HKD for product A and 2,700 HKD for product B.

a. What combination will maximize the profit for the company? (Use Solver.)

b. Find a graphical solution. LO.1