Question: Three products are processed through three different operations. The following table gives the time required, profit per unit of each product and operation capacity:

Three products are processed through three different operations. The following table gives the time required, profit per unit of each product and operation capacity:
\table[[Operations,Time Per Unit (Minutes ),\table[[Operation],[Capacity],[Minutes/Day]]],[Product I,Product II,Product III,43],[1,3,4,3,46],[2,5,0,4,42],[3,3,6,2,],[Profit/Unit ($),2,1,3,43]]
The objective is to find product-mix which maximizes the profit.
(a) Formulate this as an L.P. Problem.
(b) Convert the problem into dual form
(c) Use the simplex method to find optimal solution for the problem formulated in (a) above.
6. A small city of 15,000 people requires an average of 3 litres of water daily. The city is supplied with water purified at a central water works, where water is purified by filtration, chlorination and addition of two chemicals softening chemical x and health chemical Y. Water works plans to purchase two popular brands of products, product A and product B, which contain these two elements. One unit of product A gives 8Kg of x and 3Kg of Y. One unit of product B gives 4Kg of x and 9Kg of Y. To maintain the water at a minimum level of softness and meet a minimum in health protection, it is decided that 150Kg and 100Kg of two chemicals that make up each product must be
 Three products are processed through three different operations. The following table

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