The New England Cheese Company produces two cheese spreads byblending mild cheddar cheese with extra sharp cheddar cheese. Thecheese spreads are packaged in 12-ounce containers, which are thensold to distributors throughout the Northeast. The Regular blendcontains 85% mild cheddar and 15% extra sharp, and the Zesty blendcontains 75% mild cheddar and 25% extra sharp. This year, a localdairy cooperative offered to provide up to 9,000 pounds of mildcheddar cheese for $1.50 per pound and up to 4,000 pounds of extrasharp cheddar cheese for $1.70 per pound. The cost to blend andpackage the cheese spreads, excluding the cost of the cheese, is$0.25 per container. If each container of Regular is sold for $2.00and each container of Zesty is sold for $2.50, how many containersof Regular and Zesty should New England Cheese produce?
Do not round your interim computations. If required, round youranswers to the nearest whole number.
| Let R= | | number of containers ofRegular |
| Z = | | number of containers of Zesty |
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