Healthtech Foods managers are considering developing a new low-fat snack food. It is to be a blend of two types of cereals, each of which has different fiber, fat, and protein characteristics. The following table shows these nutrition characteristics for an ounce of each type of cereal. Cereal Dietary Fiber (grams)Fat (grams)Protein (grams) A224 B1.533 Healthtech’s nutrition requirements call for each ounce of the new food to have at least 1.7 grams of dietary fiber, no more than 2.8 grams of fat, and no more than 3.6 grams of protein. The cost of cereal A is P0.02 per ounce and the cost of cereal B is P0.025 per ounce. Healthtech wants to determine how much of each cereal is needed to produce an ounce of the new food product at the lowest possible cost.

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