GRAPHICAL METHOD

1. A dietician wishes to mix two types of foods in such away that vitamin contents of
the mixture contain atleast 8 units of vitamin A and 10 units of vitamin C. Food ‘I’
contains 2 units/kg of vitamin A and 1 unit/kg of vitamin C. Food ‘II’ contains 1
unit/kg of vitamin A and 2 units/kg of vitamin C. It costs Rs 50 per kg to purchase
Food ‘I’ and Rs 70 per kg to purchase Food ‘II’. Formulate this problem as a linear
programming problem to minimise the cost of such a mixture

2. A cooperative society of farmers has 50 hectare of land to grow two crops X and
Y. The profit from crops X and Y per hectare are estimated as Rs 10,500 and Rs
9,000 respectively. To control weeds, a liquid herbicide has to be used for crops X
and Y at rates of 20 litres and 10 litres per hectare. Further, no more than 800 litres
of herbicide should be used in order to protect fish and wild life using a pond which
collects drainage from this land. How much land should be allocated to each crop
so as to maximise the total profit of the society?

3. A manufacturing company makes two models A and B of a product. Each piece of

Model A requires 9 labour hours for fabricating and 1 labour hour for finishing.
Each piece of Model B requires 12 labour hours for fabricating and 3 labour hours
for finishing. For fabricating and finishing, the maximum labour hours available are
180 and 30 respectively. The company makes a profit of Rs 8000 on each piece
of model A and Rs 12000 on each piece of Model B. How many pieces of Model
A and Model B should be manufactured per week to realise a maximum profit?
What is the maximum profit per week?

4. Smitty’s, a clothing manufacturer that produces men’s shirts and pajamas, has two primary
resources available: sewing-machine time (in the sewing department) and cutting-machine time
(in the cutting department). Over the next month, Smitty can schedule up to 280 hours of work
on sewing machines and up to 450 hours of work on cutting machines. Each shirt produced
requires 1.00 hour of sewing time and 1.50 hours of cutting time. Producing each pair of pajamas
requires .75 hour of sewing time and 2 hours of cutting time.

5. Holiday Meal Turkey Ranch is considering buying two different types of turkey feed. Each feed
contains, in varying proportions, some or all of the three nutritional ingredients essential for
fattening turkeys. Brand Y feed costs the ranch $.02 per pound. Brand Z costs $.03 per pound. The
rancher would like to determine the lowest-cost diet that meets the minimum monthly intake
requirement for each nutritional ingredient.

SIMPLEX
1. Ace Novelty wishes to produce two types of souvenirs: type-A will result in a profit
of $1.00, and type-B in a profit of $1.20. To manufacture a type-A souvenir requires
 2 minutes on machine I and 1 minute on machine II. A type-B souvenir requires 1
minute on machine I and 3 minutes on machine II. There are 3 hours available on
machine I and 5 hours available on machine II. How many souvenirs of each type
should Ace make in order to maximize its profit?

1. Anna Pott, who is a candidate for the state of legislature has $96,000 to buy TV
advertising time. Ads cost $400 per minute on a local scale cable channel, $4000
per minute on a regional independent channel, and $12,000 per minute on a
national network channel. Because of existing contracts, the TV stations can
provide at most a total of 30 minutes of advertising time, with a maximum of 6
minutes on the national network channel. At any given time during the evening,
approximately 100,000 people watch the cable channel and 600,000 the network
channel. To get maximum exposure, how much time should Ana buy from each
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INVENTORY MODEL

1. Jason owns a fish shop where he sells an exotic variety of tuna fish which he imports from Japan.
Jason refrigerates the fish in a cold storage facility near his shop that charges him a fixed annual
fee of $1000 and variable charge of $5 per day for each fish container that is stored. Every
morning, Jason brings fish from the cold storage to his shop for sale. Jason estimates that he incurs
$10,000 electricity cost each year on refrigerating the fish inside his own shop.

Jason incurs the following ordering costs:

Delivery charges of $10,000 per delivery

Import duties of $300 per carton

Custom fees of $200 per order

Import license fee of $150 per annum

Jason currently imports fish by placing one order of 20 cartons every month. Each carton
costs $2,000. Jason is wondering if he can save inventory costs by adopting EOQ model.