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The management of the company has to decide as to how many chairs and tables to be produced
per day to maximize the profit. The following information is available to the management. The
profit per item is `35 and `55, respectively. In order to produce the two items that requires re-
sources wood, manpower and machine hour. The supply of wood is restricted to 1500 kg/day.
The manpower available per day is 75 carpenters. Also the maximum of 120 machine hours
available per day. The production formula is as given in the following table.
Formulate an LP model to determine the daily production rate of various models in order to
maximize the profit.
2. A firm manufactures three products A, B and C. The profits are `3, `2 and `4, respectively. The
firm has two machines. The processing time in minutes for each machine on each product is
given below.
Products
A B C
Machines D 4 3 5
E 2 2 4
Machines D and E have 2000 and 2500 machine minutes, respectively. The firm must manu-
facture at least 100 A’s; 200 B’s and 50 C’s but not more than 150 C’s. Formulate a linear pro-
gramming model to maximize the total profit.
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The co-operative farm wishes to determine how much acreage should be planted in each of the
crops and how many cows and hens should be kept to maximize its net cash income.
4. Relax and Enjoy Lake Development Corporation is developing a lake side community at a
privately owned lake and in the business of selling property for vacation and rent cottages. The
primary market for these lakeside lots are middle and upper income families within 100 miles
of the development. Relax and Enjoy has employed the advertising firm Philippines Jackson to
design the promotional campaign for the project.
After considering possible advertising media and the market to be covered, the agency has
made the preliminary recommendations to restrict the first month’s advertising to five sources.
At the end of this month, the agency will re-evaluate the strategy based upon the month’s results.
The agency has collected data on the number of potential purchase families reached, the cost
per advertisement, the maximum number of times each medium is available and the expected
exposure for each of the five media. The expected exposure is measured in terms of an exposure
unit, a management judgement measure of the relative value of one advertisement in each of the
media. The measures based on agency’s experience in the advertising business take into account
such factors as audience profile (age, income and education of the audience reached), image
presented and quality of the advertisement. The information collected is presented in Table 1.
Table 1
Advertising media alternative for relax and enjoy lake development corporation.
Relax and Enjoy has provided with an advertising budget of `300,000 for the first month’s
campaign.
In addition, the company has a wish to have at least 10 television commercials, and atleast
50,000 potential purchasers must be reached during the month. Formulate the problem of media
selection.
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5. The River Falls Textile Company can use any or all of three different processes for weaving its
standard white polyester fabric. Each of these production processes has a weaving machine set-
up cost and per-square-meter processing cost. These costs and the capacities of each of the three
production processes are as follows:
The company forecasts daily demand for its white polyester fabric of 40,000 square meters. The
company’s production manager wants to make a decision concerning which production pro-
cesses to utilize to meet the daily demand forecast, and at what capacity, to minimize the total
production costs. Formulate the suitable mathematical model for the above situation.
6. The River Falls Textile Company can use any or all of three different processes for weaving its
standard white polyester fabric. Each of these production processes has a weaving machine set-
up cost and per-square-meter processing cost. These costs and the capacities of each of the three
production processes are as follows:
The company forecasts daily demand for its white polyester fabric of 40,000 square meters. The
company’s production manager wants to make a decision concerning which production pro-
cesses to utilize to meet the daily demand forecast, and at what capacity, to minimize the total
production costs. Formulate the suitable mathematical model for the above situation.
7. Mathura Bank has to formulate the loan policy for the financial year 1997−1998. The total
loanable amount is `1000 crores. The bank grants loan to different types of client to maximize
the return subject to the constraints of RBI and the market. The following table provides the
interests rate charged by the bank for various type of loans and the probability of the bad debts
as estimated from the past records. Bad debts are assumed to be unrecoverable and also do not
produce any revenue.
As per RBI guidelines atleast 15% of funds must be loaned to agricultural sector. Industry and
agricultural loan should be more than 50%. Jewel loan should not exceed 10% of funds. Hous-
ing loan should be greater than jewel loan and car loan put together. The overall bad debt on all
loans should not exceed 0.05.
8. A factory has decided to diversify their activities and data collected by sales and production is
summarized below:
Potential demand exists for 3 products A, B and C. Market can take any amount ofA
and C whereas the share of B for this organization is expected to be not more than 400 units a
month.
For every three units of C produced, there will be one unit of a by-product which sells
at a contribution of `3 a unit and only 100 units of this by-product can be sold per
month. Contribution per unit of products A, B and C is expected to be `6, `8 and `4,
respectively.
These products require three different processes and time required per unit production is
given in the following table:
Product (Hr/Unit)
Process A B C Available Hours
I 2 3 1 900
II − 1 2 600
III 3 2 2 1200
Determine the optimum product mix for maximizing the contribution.
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9. A certain farming organization operates three farms of comparable productivity. The output of
each form is limited both by the usable acreage and by the amount of water available for irriga-
tion. The data for the upcoming season are the following.
The organization is considering three crops for planting which differ primarily in their expected
profit/acre and in their consumption of water. Furthermore, the total acreage that can be devoted
to each of the crops is limited by the amount appropriate harvesting equipment available.
In order to maintain uniform workload among the farms, it is the policy of the organization that
the percentage of the usable acreage planted must be the same at each farm. However, any com-
bination of the crops may be grown at any of the farms. The organization wishes to know how
much of each crop should be planted at the respective farms in order to maximize the expected
profit. Formulate this as an LPP.
10. A local hospital administration wishes to determine a work schedule for registered nurses
(RNs). The union contract specifies that nurses work a normal day of six hours. The
administrator hasdetermined a daily work schedule in which the day is divided into eight three-
hours shifts. Thefollowing table indicates the estimated minimum requirement for nurses per
shift. The nurses will start work each day at the beginning of one of these shifts and end work
at the end of the following shift.
Period
12-3 3-6 6-9 9-12 12-3 3-6 6-9 9-12
Shifts a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.
Minimum number 30 20 40 50 60 50 40 40
of required RNs
The administration must specify the number of nurses that is to begin work each shift, so that the
required number of nurses is available for each three-hours period.
The objective is to minimize the total number of nurses employed NP.
11.A toy company manufactures two types of dolls a basic version: doll A and a delux ver-
sion: doll B. Each type of doll B takes time twice as long as one type A, and the com-pany
would have time to make maximum of 2000 in type A per day. The supply of plas-tic is sufficient
to produce 1500 dolls per day (both A and B combined). The deluxeversion requires a fancy
dress of which there are only 600 per day available. If the company makes a profit of `3 and
`5 per doll, respectively, on doll A and doll B, then howmany of each doll should be produced
per day in order to maximize the total profit. Formulate it.
12.A company has two grades of inspectors 1 and 2 to undertake quality control inspection. At least
1500 pieces must be inspected in an 8 hour day. Grade 1 inspector can check 20 pieces inan hour with
an accuracy of 96%. Grade 2 inspector checks 14 pieces an hour with an accuracyof 92%. The daily
wages of Grade 1 inspectors are `5/hr, while those of Grade 2 inspectors are `4/hr. Any error made
by an inspector costs `3 to the company. If the company is having 10 grade 1 and 15 grade 2
inspectors, find the optimal assignment of inspectors that minimizes the daily inspection cost.
Formulate this problem as an LPP.
13. A firm manufactures two items. It purchases castings which are then machined (M), bored (B)
and polished (P). Castings for items A and B cost `3 and `4, respectively, and are sold at `6
and `7 each, respectively. Running cost of the three machines are `20/hr, `14/hr and `17.50/hr,
respectively. What product mix maximizes the profit. Formulate a LP Model, solution is not
necessary. Capacities of the machines are as follows:
14. An advertising company wishes to plan an advertising campaign in three different Media: TV,
Radio and Magazines. The aim of the advertising program is to reach as many potential cus-
tomers as possible. Research of a market study is given below:
Television
Particulars Day Time Prime Time Radio Magazines
The Company does not want to spend more than `750,000 on advertising. It also requires that
a. atleast 2.5 million exposures take place among women, (ii) advertising on TV be limited
to `450,000, (iii) atleast 4 advertising units be bought on daytime TV and two during prime time
and (iv) the number of advertising units on radio and magazine should each be between 4 and
10.
15. The Xyz Paper Company produces paper rolls with standard width of 210 cm, special cus- tomers
orders with different widths are produced by slitting the standard rolls. The orders aresummarized
in the following table:
16. The Manager of an Oil Company must decide on the optimal mix of two possible blending
processes of which the inputs and outputs per production run are as follows: