Moore’s Meatpacking Company producesahot dog mixture in 1000- pound batches. The mixturecontains two ingredients- chicken and beef.The cost per pound of each of these ingredients is asfollows:
IngredientCost/lb.
Chicken 3
Beef 5
Each batch has the following recipe requirements:
1.At least 500 pounds of chicken
2.At least 200 pounds of beef
The ratio of chicken to beef must be at least 2 to 1.
1) The company wants to know the optimalmixture of ingredientsthatwillminimizecost.
2)Formulatea linear programming model for this problem.
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