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Linear Programming — MATHS STD 12 Science — Question

Rajasthan BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceMATHSLinear Programming5 Marks
Question
A dietician has to develop a special diet using two foods P and Q. Each packet (containing 30g) of food P contains 12 units of calcium, 4 units of iron, 6 units of cholesterol and 6 units of vitamin A. Each packet of the same quantity of food Q contains 3 units of calcium, 20 units of iron, 4 units of cholesterol and 3 units of vitamin A. The diet requires atleast 240 units of calcium, atleast 460 units of iron and at most 300 units of cholesterol. How many packets of each food should be used to minimise the amount of vitamin A in the diet? What is the minimum Amount of vitamin A.
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Answer

Let x packets of food P and y packets of food Q be used to make the diet.
Each packet of food P contains 6 units of vitamin A and each packet of food Q contains 3 units of vitamin A.
Therefore, x packets of food P and y packets of food Q contains (6x + 3y) units of vitamin A.
Since each packet of food P contains 12 units of calcium and each packet of food Q contains 3 units of calcium, therefore, x packets food P and y packets of food Q will contain (12x + 4y) units of calcium.
But, the diet should contain atleast 240 units of calcium.
$\therefore12\text{x}+3\text{y}\geq240$
$\Rightarrow4\text{x}+\text{y}\geq80$
Similarly, x packets of food P and y packets of food Q will contain (4x + 207) units of iron. But, the diet should contain atleast 460 units of iron.
$\therefore4\text{x}+20\text{y}\geq460$
$\Rightarrow\text{x}+5\text{y}\geq115$
Also, x packets of food P and y packets of food Q will contain (6x + 4y) units of cholesterol.
But, the diet should contain atmost 300 units of cholesterol.
$\therefore6\text{x}+4\text{y}\leq300$
$3\text{x}+2\text{y}\leq150$
Thus, the given linear programming problem is
Minimise Z = 6x + 3y
subject to the constraints
$4\text{x}+\text{y}\geq80$
$\text{x}+5\text{y}\geq115$
$3\text{x}+2\text{y}\leq150$
$\text{x},\text{y}\geq0$
The feasible region determined by the given constraints can be diagrammatically represented as,

The coordinates of the corner points of the feasible region are A(2, 72), B(15, 20) and C(40, 15).
The value of the objective function at these points are given in the following table.
Corner Point
Z = 6x + 3y
(2, 72)
6 × 0 + 3 × 72 = 216
(15, 20)
6 × 15 + 3 × 20 = 150
(40, 15) 6 × 40 + 3 × 15 = 285
The smallest value of Z is 150 which is obtained at x = 15 and y = 20.
It can be verified that the open half-plane represented by $6\text{x}+3\text{y}\leq150$ has no common points with the feasible region.
Thus, 15 packets of food P and 20 packets of food Q should be used to minimise the amount of vitamin A in the diet.
Hence, the minimum amount of vitamin A is 150 units.

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