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A - 7.A E 1 Normal No Spac... Heading 1 Heading 2 Title Subtitle Subtle Em.. Emphasis Select * Font F Paragraph Styles Editing 1. (a) A manufacturer of soft drinks wishes to blend three sugars in approximately equal quantities to ensure uniformity of taste in a product. Suppliers only provide combinations of the sugars, at varying costs/ton: SUPPLIER Sugar ABCDEFG Cane 10% 10 20 30 40 20 60 Corn 30% 40 40 20 60 70 10 Beet 60% 50 40 50 0 10 30 Cost/ton $10 11 12 13 14 12 15 Formulate an AMPL model that minimizes the cost of supply while producing a blend that contains 52 tons of cane sugar, 56 tons of corn sugar, and 59 tons of beet sugar. (b) The manufacturer feels that to ensure good relations with suppliers it is necessary to buy at least 10 tons from each. How does this change the model and the minimum-cost solution? (c) Formulate an alternative to the model in (a) that finds the lowest-cost way to blend one ton of supplies so that the amount of each sugar is between 30 and 37 percent of the total
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