The New England Cheese Company produces two cheese spreads by blending mild cheddar cheese with extra

sharp cheddar cheese. The cheese spreads are packaged in 12-ounce containers, which are then sold to
distributors throughout the Northeast. The Regular blend contains 80% mild cheddar and 20% extra sharp, and
the Zesty blend contains 60% mild cheddar and 40% extra sharp. This year, a local dairy cooperative offered to
provide up to 8100 pounds of mild cheddar cheese for $1.20 per pound and up to 3000 pounds of extra sharp
cheddar cheese for $1.40 per pound. The cost to blend and package the cheese spreads, excluding the cost of
the cheese, is $0.20 per container. If each container of Regular is sold for $1.95 and each container of Zesty is
sold for $2.20, how many containers of Regular and Zesty should New England Cheese produce?

1. Step 1 of 8
A pound contains 16 ounces. Since each cheese spread is packaged in 12-ounce containers,
each cheese spread is packaged in a 0.75 pound container. Let   represent the number of
containers of R blend and   represent the number of containers of Z blend.

2. Step 2 of 8
Create an expression for the pounds of mild cheese used in the two blends.

3. Step 3 of 8
Create an expression for the pounds of extra sharp cheese used in the two blends.

4. Step 4 of 8
Create an expression for the total cost.

5. Step 5 of 8
Create an expression for the profit contribution.

6. Step 6 of 8
Write a linear program. A linear program is a mathematical model with a linear objective
function and a set of linear constraints where variables are nonnegative.

Ma
x

Mild

Extra Sharp

7. Step 7 of 8
Create a LINGO model for the linear program.
MAX = 0.82*R + 1.04*Z;
0.6*R + 0.45*Z <= 8100;
0.15*R + 0.3*Z <= 3000;
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8. Step 8 of 8

Click the solve button. The optimal solution is   and   where the
objective function has a value of 13,280.