The Metalco Company desires to blend a new alloy of 40 percent tin, 35 percent zinc, and

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The Metalco Company desires to blend a new alloy of 40 percent tin, 35 percent zinc, and 25 percent lead from several available alloys having the following properties:

The Metalco Company desires to blend a new alloy of

The objective is to determine the proportions of these alloys that should be blended to produce the new alloy at a minimum cost.
(a) Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.
(b) Solve this model by the simplex method.

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Introduction to Operations Research

ISBN: 978-1259162985

10th edition

Authors: Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman

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