12. One kind of cake requires 200g of flour and 25 g of fat and another kind of cake requires 100 g of flour and 50 g of fat. Find the maximum number of cake which can be made from 5 kg of flour and 1 kg of fat assuming that there is no shortage of the other ingredients used in making the cakes.
12. One kind of cake requires 200g of flour and 25 g of fat and another kind of cake requires 100 g of flour and 50 g of fat. Find the maximum number of cake which can be made from 5 kg of flour and 1 kg of fat assuming that there is no shortage of the other ingredients used in making the cakes.
Let there be x cakes of first kind and y cakes of second kind. Therefore,
x ≥ 0 and y ≥ 0
The given information can be complied in a table as follows.
| Flour (g) | Fat (g) |
Cakes of first kind, x | 200 | 25 |
Cakes of second kind, y | 100 | 50 |
Availability | 5000 | 1000 |
Total numbers of cakes, Z, that can be made are,
The mathematical formulation of the given problem is
Maximize
subject to the constraints,
The feasible re
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