Answer to Question #217404 in Economics of Enterprise for raj

Question

The student wants to study no more than a total of 35 hours per week. He estimates that the amount of time he should study physics is at least double the amount of time he should study economics, and the amount of time he should study calculus is in between those two values. Formulate this problem as an optimization model

Answer 1

let the amount of time to study economics be x

therefore, amount of time for studying physics will be 2x

amount of time to study calculus will be ≤

35 – (2x+x) 

total amount of time of studying in a week is ≤

35 hours