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dbose

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A snack food manufacturer buys corn for tortilla chips from two cooperatives, one in Iowa and one in Illinois. The price per unit of the Iowa corn is 6.00 and the price per unit of the Illinois corn is 5.50.
 a. Define variables that would tell how many units to purchase from each source.
  b. Develop an objective function that would minimize the total cost.
  c. The manufacturer needs at least 12000 units of corn. The Iowa cooperative can supply up to 8000 units, and the Illinois cooperative can supply at least 6000 units. Develop constraints for these conditions.

Question 2

A population where each element of the population is assigned to one and only one of several classes or categories is a
 a. multinomial population
  b. Poisson population
  c. normal population
  d. None of these alternatives is correct.


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dominiqueenicolee

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a. Let x1 = the number of units from Iowa
Let x2 = the number of units from Illinois
b. Min 6x1 + 5.5x2
c. x1 + x 2  12000
x1  8000
x1  6000

Answer to Question 2

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dbose

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
Gracias!

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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