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Business decision sciences

Problem 2-37 (Algorithemic) The New England Cheese Company prodaces two cheese spreads by blending muld cheddar cheese throughout the Northeast. The Regular bleed cornans 80% mid cheddar and 20, e tra sharp and the Zesty ble dce tans 60s "di deddar and 40% extra sharp. haw.abai d vmeranter depo oteioo pounds of mild cheddar cheese for $1.20 per pound and up to 3,000 pounds of extra sharp cheddar cheese for $140 per pound. The cost to blend and peckage the cheese spreads, eaclading the cost of the chs, 90.20 per container. If each centainer of Regular is sold for $1.95 and esch container of Zesty is sold for $2.20, how many containers of Regular and Zesty should New England Cheese produce? Do not round intermediate caloulabons. f sequired with extra sharp cheddar cheese. The cheese spreads are padkaged in 12-ounce containers, which are then sold to distribstors rond you answers to the nearest whole ณamber. Let R- number of containers of Regulr Z - number of containers of Zesty Optimal Solution:R 100X,2 x,profe

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