A diet is to contain at least 80 units of Vitamin A and 100 units of minerals. Two foods F1 and F2 are available. Food F1 cost Rs. 4 per unit and F2 costs Rs. 6 per unit. One unit of food F1 contains 3 units of Vitamin A and 4 units of minerals. One unit of food F2 contains 6 units of Vitamin A and 3 units of minerals. Formulate this as a linear programming problem and find graphically the minimum cost for diet that consists of mixture of these two foods and also meets the minerals nutritional requirements.
Let x be the number of units of food F1 and y be the number of units of food F2.
LPP is,
Minimize Z = 4x + 6y such that,
3x + 6y 80
4x + 3y 100
x, y 0
Representing the LPP graphically
Corner points are
Point | cost = 4x + 6y |
4 x 0 + 6 x = 0 + 200 = 200 | |
4 x 24 + 6 x = 96 + 9 = 104 | |
4 x + 6 x 0 = + 0 =106.67 |
From the table it is clear that, minimum cost is 104 and occurs at the point .