Question: Determine the primal of a given dual programmer. [4 marks] (b) A farmer has a 320 acre farm on which she plants two crops corn

Determine the primal of a given dual programmer.
[4 marks]
(b) A farmer has a 320 acre farm on which she plants two crops corn and soya beans. For each acre of corn planted, her expenses are Ksh 50 and for soya beans Kshs 100. Each acre of 4
corn requires 100 bushels of storage and yields a profit of Kshs 60, each acre of soya beans requires 40 bushels of storage and yields a profit of Ksh 90. If the total amount of storage space available is 19200 bushels and and the farmer has only Ksh 20000 on hand, how many acres of each crop should she plant in order to maximize her returns. What will her profit be of she follows this strategy? Use simplex algorithm. [6 marks].

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