(x represents the number of plain cookies while y represents the number of iced cookies)
Dough: (1)x + (0.7)y is less than or equal to 110 pounds (Plain cookies need 1 pound of dough while cookies with icing only requires 0.7 pounds of dough)
Icing: (0)x + (0.4)y is less than or equal to 32 pounds of icing. (The plain cookies do not require any icing, which is why they are represented with a constant of 0.)
Time: (.1)x + (.15)y is less than or equal to 15 total hours.
Oven: x+y is less than or equal to 140 total dozen cookies
The key part to this problem is the profit and cost of each cookie. Plain cookies are sold for 6$ a dozen while iced cookies are sold for 7$. It costs 4.50$ per dozen of plain cookies. It costs 5.00$ per dozen to make iced cookies.
After using these constraints, I simply used the guess and check method to find the amount of plain and iced cookies that satisfies all of the constraints while yielding the highest amount of profit. I actually created a chart to demonstrate the possible combinations of iced and plain cookies and the profit that they will result:
PLAIN
30
110
50
0
75
ICED
80
0
30
80
50
PROFIT
205$
165$
180$
160$
212.50$
Using Desmos, you can see the graphs of the different constraints and how they form a feasible region:

Below are pictures of my work
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