A small firm produces two types of wooden lampstands: rounded and angular. Both types require two hand-crafted processes: cutting and smoothing. Rounded lampstands require 1 hour of cutting and 3 hours of smoothing whereas angular lampstands require 2 hours of cutting but only 1 hour of smoothing. The firm has 400 man-hours of cutting available each week and 300 man-hours of smoothing. The firm calculates that they can make 3 Euro profit on each rounded lampstand and 4 Euro profit on each angular lampstand.
(4a) The problem is to maximise profit. Formulate this as a linear programming problem, giving the three steps and state any assumptions made.
(4b) Solve the LP problem in (4a) graphically. Hence, state your recommendation for the number of each type of lampstands the firm should produce in order to maximise weekly profit. Give the total profit per week that would be expected given your solution.
I'm stuck on part b. How do I solve it graphically? I've never done that before. Hope you can help. Thanks.
For part b: the feasible allocations of resources are bound by:
$A=$ number of angled lampstands $R =$ number of rounded lampstands
$A \ge 0\\ R \ge 0$
$2A + 1 R \le 400$ (use of cutting resources)
$A + 3 R \le 300$ (use of smoothing resoures)
Graph this region, the most profitable will be at one of the corners.