Problema Solution

Red Bookstore wants to ship books from its warehouses in Brooklyn and Queens to its stores, one on Long Island and one in Manhattan. Its warehouse in Brooklyn has 1,000 books and its warehouse in Queens has 2,000. Each store orders 1,500 books. It costs $5 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Long Island and $1 to ship each book from Brooklyn to Manhattan. It costs $4 to ship each book from Queens to Long Island and $2 to ship each book from Queens to Manhattan.

(a) If Red has a transportation budget of $8,400 and is willing to spend all of it, how many books should Red ship from each warehouse to each store in order to fill all the orders? (Assume Red spends the entire transportation budget.)

Answer provided by our tutors

1,000 books at $1 apiece costs $1,000 to send 1000 books from Brooklyn to Manhattan, leaving them 500 books short


500 books at $2 apiece must then be shipped from Queens to Manhattan, another $1,000


so $2,000 was spent to send books from Manhattan


all 1500 books would have to ship from Queens to Long Island, at $4 apiece


so 4*1500=6000


$6,000 would spent to send books from Queens to Long Island


this leaves $400 unspent but is effectively all $8,000 spent