What is optimization

a. What is optimization? Name any two (2) forms of optimization. 4.5 marks b. A Micro Chip processing plant in Accra produces Chips A and B for two Telecommunication Companies A and B respectively. The production line requires three main operations for each product: preparations (1), lling (2) and packaging (3). These operations require the following amount of time (in minutes} _ __ There are 120I hours of labour available per day for preparations, 90 hours for lling and 3'5 for packaging. Also each dozen of sachet water brings a prot of {15 and each dozen of bottled water a prot ofGZI. i} Use it for sachet water and y for bottled water, formulate the objective function and all the constraints. . 4 marks ii) Introduce slack variables and use simplex tableau method to determine the maximum value of the objective function. . 9 marks