Question: At the grocery store Cliara - Mart, shelf space is limited and must be used effectively to INCREASE PROFIT. As the newly hired analyst for

At the grocery store Cliara-Mart, shelf space is limited and must be used effectively to INCREASE
PROFIT. As the newly hired analyst for the store, you are tasked with proposing how much shelf
space to allocate for each product.
Here are some details to help you formulate the problem:
A box of Grano nets $1.00 in profit and a box of Wheatie $1.35.
Two cereal items, Grano and Wheatie, compete for a total shelf space of 60ft2. A box of Grano
occupies 0.2ft2 and a box of Wheatie needs 0.4ft2.
It is store policy to stock a minimum of 25 boxes of each brand.
The maximum daily demands of Grano and Wheatie are 200 and 120 boxes, respectively.
You are contractually obligated to ensure that Grano fills at least 40% of the total number of
boxes.
Formulate (but do not solve) a linear program for this problem.
("Formulation" entails: (1) clearly defining the decision variables, (2) clearly stating the objective
function, and (3) clearly formulating the constraints.) IN EXCEL
 At the grocery store Cliara-Mart, shelf space is limited and must

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