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3.  A dietician wishes to mix together two kinds of food X and Y in such a way that the mixture contains at least 10 units of vitamin A, 12 units of vitamin B and 8 units of vitamin C. The vitamin contents of one kg of food are given below:

Food Vitamin A Vitamin B Vitamin C
X 1 2 3
Y 2 2 1

One kg of food X costs Rs 16 and one kg of food Y costs Rs 20. Find the least cost of the mixture which will produce the required diet.

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Let mixture contain x kg of food X and y kg of food Y.

The mathematical formulation of the given problem is as  follows:

Minimize : z=16x+20y

Subject to constraint,

 x+2y\geq 10

 x+y\geq 6

 3x+y\geq 8

 x,y\geq 0

The feasible  region determined by constraints is as follows:

       

The corner points of the feasible region are A(10,0),B(2,4),C(1,5),D(0,8)

The value of Z at corner points is as shown :

 corner points 

z=16x+20y

 
   A(10,0)             160  

B(2,4)

           112 minimum
  C(1,5)             116  
   D(0,8)            160  

  The feasible region is unbounded, therefore 112  may or may not be maximum value of Z.

For this, we draw 16x+20y< 112 and check whether the resulting half-plane has a point in common with the feasible region or not.

We can see feasible region has no common point  16x+20y< 112.

Hence, Z has a minimum value of 112  at  point  B(2,4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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