Question: New Exercise Bank Content Qu . 0 6 - 2 5 Slim - Down Manufacturing makes a line of nutritionally complete, weight - reduction beverages.

New Exercise Bank Content Qu.06-25
Slim-Down Manufacturing makes a line of nutritionally complete, weight-reduction beverages. One of its products is a strawberry shake that is designed to be a complete meal. The strawberry shake consists of several ingredients. Some information about each of these ingredients is given next. The nutritional requirements are as follows. The beverage must total between 380 and 420 calories (inclusive). No more than 20 percent of the total calories should come from fat. There must be at least 50 milligrams ( mg ) of vitamin content. For taste reasons, there must be at least two tablespoons (tbsp.) of strawberry flavoring for each tbsp. of artificial sweetener. Finally, to maintain proper thickness, there must be exactly 15 mg of thickeners in the beverage.
\table[[,\table[[Calories from Fat],[(per tablespoon)]],\table[[Total Calories],[(per],[tablespoon)]],\table[[Vitamin Content],[(mg/tablespoon)]],\table[[Thickeners],[(mg/tablespoon)]]],[Ingredient,1,50,20,3],[Strawberry flavoring,75,100,0,8],[Cream,0,0,50,1],[Vitamin supplement,0,120,0,2],[Artificial Sweetener,30,80,2,25],[Thickening agent,,,,]]
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Formulate and solve a linear programming model for this problem on a spreadsheet.
a. Determine the quantity of each ingredient for the beverage.
Note: Leave no cells blank. Enter "O" when necessary. Round your answers to 3 decimal places.
Answer is complete but not entirely correct.
Strawberry
Cream
Vitamin
Sweetener
Thickener
why am i getting strawberry, cream, and sweetner values wrong?
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