Question: Hill - O - Beans Coffee Company blends four component beans into three final blends of coffee: One is sold to luxury hotels, another to

Hill-O-Beans Coffee Company blends four component beans into three final blends of coffee: One is sold to luxury hotels, another to restaurants and the third to supermarkets for store-label brands. The company has four reliable bean supplies: rgentine bundo, Peruvian Colmado, Brazilian Maximo and Chilean Saboro. The table below summarizes the very precise recipes for the final coffee blends, the cost and availability information for the four components and the wholesale price per pound of the final blends. The percentages indicate the fraction of each component to be used in each blend.
\table[[Component,Hotel,Restaurant,Market,Cost/Pound,Weekly vailability],[Abundo,20%,35%,10%,0.60,40,000],[Colmado,40%,15%,35%,0.80,25,000],[Maximo,15%,20%,40%,0.55,20,000],[Saboro,25%,30%,15%,0.70,45,000],[Wholesale price/pound,1.25,1.50,1.40,,]]
The processor's plant can handle no more than 100,000 pounds per week and Hill-O-Beans would like to operate at capacity. There is no problem in selling the final blends although the marketing department requires minimum production levels of 10,000,25,000 and 30,000 pounds respectively for the hotel, restaurant and market blends.
Write a linear program to maximize the weekly profit of Hill-O-Beans. Make sure to explicitly define all decision variables.
 Hill-O-Beans Coffee Company blends four component beans into three final blends

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