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ABC chocolate company sells milk chocolate & dark chocolate.

The manager of the company is


analyzing sales from the last years. He/ She finds that the most popular milk chocolate has at least
66% sugar, while the most popular dark chocolate has at least 79% cocoa. Because of this, he
decides that moving forward, the composition of each product will always be as follows:

Chocolate Sugar Cocoa


Type Content Content

Milk 66% 34%

Dark 21% 79%

The Manager finds that each pound of milk chocolate sold yields a $0.94 profit and that each pound
of dark chocolate sold returns a $0.82 profit.

Currently, ABC chocolate company has 2000 pounds of sugar and 4000 pounds of cocoa content and
must find out how many pounds worth of each chocolate it should sell to maximize its profit.

Part 1: Define a function that can maximize the profits for ABC chocolate company. Use M to denote
pounds of milk chocolate and D to denote pounds of dark chocolate.

Part 2: Formulate the constraint for cocoa content available in the storage room. Use M to denote a
pound's of Milk Chocolate and D to denote a pound's of Dark Chocolates. Only write the left-hand
side of your equation. The right-hand side is:

≤4000

Part 3: Formulate the constraint for the sugar available in the storage room. Use M to denote a
pound's of Milk Chocolate and D to denote a pound's of Dark Chocolates. Only write the left-hand
side of your equation. The right-hand side is:

≤2000

Part 4: What is the value of the pounds of Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, for achieving the
maximum profit. Also, mention the amount of the maximum profit.

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