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1. Ka Tunying's Breadshop bakes two breads, Alpha and Bravo.

One batch of Alpha uses 5 pounds of


quinoa and 3 pounds of flour. One batch of Bravo uses 2 pounds of quinoa and 3 pounds of flour. The
company has 180 pounds of quinoa and 135 pounds of flour available. Ka Tunying's Breadshop wants to
maximize its profits from bread sales. One batch of Alpha yields a profit of $40. One batch of Bravo yields
a profit of $30. Find how many batches of each bread the bakery should bake.
Required: a. What is the objective function statement?
b. What are the constraints statements?
c. Determine the x and y coordinates ang plot on a graph.
d. What are the corner points of the feasible region?
e. What is the optimum combination of Alpha and Bravo to achieve maximum profit?
Optimum Combination
2. A farmer has 80 hectares of his farm available for planting potatoes and sayote. He must grow at least 10
hectares of potatoes and 20 hectares of sayote to meet demands. He prefers to plant more sayote than
potatoes, but his work force and equipment will only allow him to cultivate a maximum of three times the
quantity of sayote to that of potatoes. If the profit on potatoes is Php 800 per ha and on sayote Php500
per ha, how should the farmer plant the two crops to make a maximum profit and what is this profit.
Required: a. what is the objective function statement
b. what are the constraints statements
c. Determine the x and y coordinates ang plot on a graph
d. what are the corner points of the feasible region

e. what is the optimum combination of Alpha and Bravo to achieve maximum profit.

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