F4S Summer Holiday Homework Name : No.

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Linear Programming – constraints/inequalities

1. You are in charge of buying new cupboards for a school laboratory. The cupboards are available in
two different sizes, standard and large. The maximum budget available is £1800. Standard cupboards
cost £150 and large cupboards cost £300.
Let x be the number of standard cupboards and y be the number of large cupboards.
a. Write down an inequality, in terms of x and y, to model this constraint.
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The cupboards will be fitted along a wall 9 m long. Standard cupboards are 90 cm long and large
cupboards are 120 cm long.
b. Show that this constraint can be modelled by 3x + 4y ≤ 30. You must make your reasoning clear.
Given also that y ≥ 2,
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c. explain what this constraint means in the context of the question.
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2. Rose makes hanging baskets which she sells at her local market. She makes two types, large and small.
Rose makes x large baskets and y small baskets. Each large basket costs £7 to make and each small
basket costs £5 to make. Rose has £350 she can spend on making the baskets.
a. Write down an inequality, in terms of x and y, to model this constraint.
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Two further constraints are y ≤ 20 and y ≤ 4x
b. Use these two constraints to write down statements that describe the numbers of large and
small baskets that Rose can make.
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3. Ernesto is to plant a garden with two types of trees: palms and conifers.
- He is to plant at least 10, but not more than 80 palms.
- He is to plant at least 5, but not more than 40 conifers.
- He cannot plant more than 100 trees in total.
- Each palm need 20 litres of water each day and each conifer needs 60 litres of water each day.
wThere are 3000 litres of water available each day.
Write down the inequalities to model these constraints.
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4. The Jolly Company sells two types of party pack: excellent and luxury.
-Each excellent pack has 5 balloons and each luxury pack has 10 balloons.
-Each excellent pack has 32 sweets and each luxury pack has 8 sweets.
-The company has 1500 balloons and 3000 sweets available.
If the company sells x excellent packs and y luxury packs.
a. Show the above information in three inequalities.
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Three more inequalities are given, x ≥ 50, y ≥ 50 and x + y ≥ 140.
b. Explain what these constraints mean in the content.
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