The Sweet Smell Fertilizer Company markets bags of manure labeled not less than 60 pounds dry weight.

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The Sweet Smell Fertilizer Company markets bags of manure labeled "not less than 60 pounds dry weight." The packaged manure is a combination of compost and sewage wastes. To provide good-quality fertilizer, each bag should contain at least 30 pounds of compost but no more than 40 pounds of sewage. Each pound of compost costs Sweet Smell 5 cents and each pound of sewage costs 4 cents. Use linear programming to determine the least cost blend of compost and sewage in each bag.


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Quantitative Analysis For Management

ISBN: 162

11th Edition

Authors: Barry Render, Ralph M. Stair, Michael E. Hanna

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