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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 food is 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.

Mathematical formulation of 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 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 minimum value of Z .

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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