Question: 1. Montega is a developing country that has 15,000,000 acres of publicly controlled agricultural land in active use. Its government currently is planning a way

1. Montega is a developing country that has
1. Montega is a developing country that has
1. Montega is a developing country that has 15,000,000 acres of publicly controlled agricultural land in active use. Its government currently is planning a way to divide this land among three basic crops (labeled 1, 2, and 3) next year. A certain percentage of each of these crops is exported to obtain badly needed foreign capital (dollars), and the rest of each of these crops is used to feed the populace. Raising these crops also provides employment for a significant proportion of the population. Therefore, the main factors to be considered in allocating the land to these crops are (1) the amount of foreign capital generated, (2) the number of citizens fed, and (3) the number of citizens employed in raising these crops. The following table shows how much each 1,000 acres of each crop contributes toward these factors, and the last column gives the goal established by the government for each of these factors, Contribution per 1,000 Acres of Crop Factor 2 foreign capital $3,000 $4,000 $70 million Citizens fed 2 1.750,000 Citizens employed 200,000 1 3 Goal 150 10 $5.000 25 15 100 12 In evaluating the relative seriousness of not achieving these goals, the government has concluded that the following deviations from the goals should be considered equally undesirable: (1) each $100 under the foreign-capital goal, (2) each person under the citizens-fed goal, and (3) cach deviation of one (in either direction) from the citizens-employed goal. a. Formulate and solve this problem as a linear programming model on a spreadsheet

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