(Solution) - Joyce and Marvin run a day care for preschoolers They -(2025 Original AI-Free Solution)
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Joyce and Marvin run a day care for preschoolers. They are trying to decide what to feed the children for lunches. They would like to keep their costs down, but also need to meet the nutritional requirements of the children. They have already decided to go with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and some combination of graham crackers, milk, and orange juice. The nutritional content of each food choice and its cost are given in the table below.
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Joyce and Marvin would like to select the food choices for each child which minimize cost while meeting the above requirements.
(a) Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.
(b) Solve this model by the simplex method.