The Donnor meat processing firm produces wieners from four ingredients: chicken, beef, pork, and a cereal additive. The firm produces three types of wieners: regular, beef, and all-meat. The company has the following amounts of each ingredient available on a daily basis:

Each type of wiener has certain ingredient specifications, as follows:

The firm wants to know how many pounds of wieners of each type to produce to maximize profits.
a. Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.
b. Solve the model by using thecomputer.

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Pounds/Day 200 300 150 400 Cost/Pound Chicken Beef Pork Cereal additive $.20 .30 .50 05 Specifications Selling Price/Pound 0.90 1.25 Regular Not more than 10% beef and pork combined Not less than 20% chicken Not less than 75% beef No cereal additive Not more than 50% beef and pork combined Beef All-meat 1.75