A pharmaceutical company decided to manufacture new food supplement pills. It will need to add some vitamins
Question:
A pharmaceutical company decided to manufacture new food supplement pills. It will need to add some vitamins to the mix. It decides on two vitamin mixes: Vitamin mix 1 and Vitamin mix 2. Vitamin mix 1 costs $40 and will contain 2 units of vitamin B and 5 units of vitamin C. Vitamin mix 2 costs 35 USD and will contain 2 units of vitamin B and 3 units of vitamin C. For nutritional reasons, both mixes have to contain at least 12 units of vitamin B and 15 of vitamin C.
Formulate a linear programming model based on the given data.
For the same pharmaceutical company and their food supplement mix problem, perform the following:
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Propose a graphical solution.
Find out the corner point solution
Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes
ISBN: 978-1119498759
4th edition
Authors: Richard M. Felder, ? Ronald W. Rousseau, ? Lisa G. Bullard