Q.A company manufactures bicycles and tricycles, each of which must be processed through two machines A and B. Maximum availability of Machine A and B is respectively 120 and 180 hours. Manufacturing a bicycle requires 6 hours on Machine A and 3 hours on Machine B. Manufacturing a tricycles requires 4 hours on Machine A and 10 hours on Machine B. If profits are Rs.180/- for a bicycle and Rs.220/- for a tricycle. Determine the number of bicycles and tricycles that should be manufactured in order to maximize the profit.

The chapter proves (without proof, as a stated theorem) that when the objective function of an L.P.P. attains its optimum (maximum or minimum) value over a convex-polygon feasible region, that optimum is always attained at one of the polygon's vertices (corner points) — this is the Corner-Point or Convex-Polygon Theorem, and it is what makes the graphical method possible: instead of checking every point of an infinite region, only the (finitely many) vertices need to be checked. The Corner-Point Method proceeds in five steps: (1) convert every constraint's inequation into its boundary equation and draw the line; (2) shade the half-plane each constraint demands and locate the region common to all of them — the feasible region; (3) find every vertex of this feasible region, either by reading intercepts directly off the graph or, more reliably, by solving each relevant pair of boundary-line equations simultaneously; (4) evaluate the objective function $z$ at every vertex f …