A firm makes two products X and Y, and has a total production capacity of 9 tones per day, X and Y requiring the same production capacity. The firm has a permanent contract to supply at least 2 tones of X and at least 3 tones of Y per day to another company. Each tone of X requires 20 machine hours of production time and each tone of Y requires 50 machine hours of production time. The daily maximum possible number of machine hour is 360. All the firm’s output can be sold, and the profit made is birr 80 per tone of X and birr 20 per tone of Y. it is required to determine the production schedule for maximum profit.