Farmer Jones must determine how many acres of com and wheat to plant this year.

An acre of
of labor per week. An acre of corn yields 10 bushels of corn and requires 4 hours of labor per w
can be sold at $3 a bushel. Seven acres of land and 40 hours per week of labor are available. Go
corn be produced during the current year. Let x1 = number of acres of corn planted, and x2 =
variables, formulate an LP whose solution will tell Farmer Jones how to maximize the total rev

Let, x1 be the number of acres of corn planted and x2 be the number of acres of wheat planted.
Person J wants to maximize the total revenue from wheat and corn. His weekly revenues are calc
weekly revenues =weekly revenue from corn + Weekly revenue from wheat
=((dollars/corn bushel)(corn bushels/acre)+(dollars/wheat bushel)(wheat b
=(3X10)x1 + (4X25)x2
=30x1+100x2

Thus, the objective function is,

Z=30x1+100x2
The constraints are as follows:
Constraint 1: Seven acres of land is available.
Constraint 2: 40 hours of labor are available each week.
Constraint 3: At least 30 bushels of corn must be produced.

x1 +x2 <=7
(( labor/week) (no of acres of corn planted) + (labor/week) (no of acres of w
4x1 +10x2<=40
Constraint 3 can be expressed in terms of  x1 and x2 as,
(bushels/week)(acres of corn planted/week)>=30
10x1>=30

Decision Variable,

Data LHS RHS Max

X1 X2
Constr1 1 1 7
Constr2 4 10 40
Constr3 10 0 30

c1 c2
obj. fn. Coeff 30 100 Range of optimality

Model
X1 X2
Decision Variable 3.00 2.80 Optimal Solution
obj. Fn 370.00 30X1+100X2 Optimal obj. fn value

LHS RHS
Constrain1 6 <= 7 X1+X2<=7 B6*$B$16+C6*$C$16
Constrain2 40 <= 40 4X1+10X2<=40 B7*$B$16+C7*$C$16
Constrain3 30 >= 30 10X1>=30 B8*$B$16+C8*$C$16
ant this year. An acre of wheat yields 25 bushels of wheat and requires 10 hours
es 4 hours of labor per week. All wheat can be sold at $4 a bushel, and all corn
f labor are available. Government regulations requite that at least 30 bushels of
corn planted, and x2 = number of acres of wheat planted. Using these decision
o maximize the total revenue from wheat and corn.

of acres of wheat planted.

His weekly revenues are calculated as follows:
from wheat
ollars/wheat bushel)(wheat bushels/acre))

ble each week.

must be produced.

labor/week) (no of acres of wheat planted))<=40

30X1+100X2

st
X1+X2<=7
4X1+10X2<=40
10X1>=30

X1, X2≥ 0
B6*$B$16+C6*$C$16
B7*$B$16+C7*$C$16
B8*$B$16+C8*$C$16