Question: 13. You are watching your macronutrient intake by including two new products to your diet, Brand X and Brand Y. Each of your food serving
13. You are watching your macronutrient intake by including two new products to your diet, Brand X and Brand Y. Each of your food serving is required to have 60 grams of protein and 30 grams of fat. Brand X has 15 grams of protein and 10 grams of fat and costs 80 cents per unit. Brand Y contains 20 grams of protein and 5 grams of fat, and costs 50 cents per unit.
The following question relates to your decision to minimize the costs and still get enough nutrients.
Formulate your decision as a linear programming by defining constraint for fat consumption.
Group of answer choices
15X+10Y=60
10X+15Y=30
10X+5Y=30
15X+20Y=60
14. You are watching your macronutrient intake by including two new products to your diet, Brand X and Brand Y. Each of your food serving is required to have 60 grams of protein and 30 grams of fat. Brand A has 15 grams of protein and 10 grams of fat and costs 80 cents per unit. Brand B contains 20 grams of protein and 5 grams of fat, and costs 50 cents per unit.
The following question relates to your decision to minimize the costs and still get enough nutrients.
Using the best possible product combination, what is the cost of consuming the required amount of nutrients? (it is OK to get fractions)
Group of answer choices
$2.52
$3.2
$3
$1.5
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