A fast food restaurant in Dubai needs white and dark meat to produce patties and burgers. Cost
Question:
A fast food restaurant in Dubai needs white and dark meat to produce patties and burgers. Cost of a kg of white meat is AED10 and dark meat is AED7. Patties must contain exactly 60% white meat and 40% dark meat. A burger should contain at least 30% white meat and at least 40% dark meat. The restaurant needs at least 50 kg of patties and 60 kg of burgers to meet the weekend demand. Processing 1 kg of white meat for the patties costs AED5 and for burgers, it costs AED3;
whereas processing 1kg of dark meat for patties costs AED6 and for burgers it costs AED2. The store wants to determine the weights (in kg) of each meat to buy to minimize the processing cost.
a. Formulate a linear programming model.
b. Solve the model by using the computer.
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