An air freight company has three types of aircraft which carry three types of cargo. The payload, in tons, is summarized in the table below. On Sundays and holidays, , the company must move 14 tons of mail, 9 tons of medical supplies, and 11 tons of freight. This system of equations can be represented by the matrix: . Reduce this matrix to calculate how many aircraft of each type should be used.

What will be an ideal response?


; 3 passenger planes, 1 transport plane, and 4 commuter planes.

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