Question: [ Please write it in hand and use the table method and iterations ] An automobile manufacturing company would like to get a special outer

[Please write it in hand and use the table method and iterations]
An automobile manufacturing company would like to get a special outer part finishing in its
premium brand cars. The research department advises to do the heat treatment with at least
40 units of material A and 50 units of material B daily for a specified time period. It also
advises the company that to get material A and material B, the company has to buy ore P
and ore Q that have both material A and material B in a proportion. One unit of ore P consists
2 units of material A and 3 units of material B and one unit of ore Q consists of 4 units of
material A and 2 units of material B. These ores are available in wholesale markets at a cost
of 3.00 USD and2.50 USD per unit of P and Q respectively. Now the problem of the
company is to decide how much of P and Q are to be purchased from the market to minimise
the total cost while the company get the required amounts of materials A and B. Solve this
linear programming problem using Big M method.

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