Question: Hi! I need help to solve this problem, please The Healthy Pet Food Company manufactures two types of dog food: Meaties and Yummies. Each package
Hi! I need help to solve this problem, please
- The Healthy Pet Food Company manufactures two types of dog food: Meaties and Yummies. Each package of Meaties contains 2 pounds of cereal and 3 pounds of meat; each package of Yummies contains 3 pounds of cereal and 1.5 pounds of meat. Healthy believes it can sell as much of each dog food as it can make. Meaties sell for $2.80 per package and Yummies sell for $2.00 per package. Healthy's production is limited in several ways. First, Healthy can buy only up to 400,000 pounds of cereal each month at $0.20 per pound. It can buy only up to 300,000 pounds of meat per month at $0.50 per pound. In addition, a special piece of machinery is required to make Meaties, and this machine has a capacity of 90,000 packages per month. The variable cost of blending and packing the dog food is $0.25 per package for Meaties and $0.20 per package for Yummies. This information is given in the table.

Meaties Yummies Sales price per package $2.80 $2.00 Raw materials per package Cereal 2 lbs. 3 lbs. Meat 3 lbs 1.5 lbs Variable cost-blending and $0.25 $0.20 packing Production capacity for Meaties 90,000 packages per month Cereal available per month 400.000 lbs. Meat available per month 300,000 lbs
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