Example 1

Firm or industry has two bottling plants. One plant located at Coimbatore and
other plant located at Chennai. Each plant produces three types of drinks Coca-
cola, Fanta and Thumps-up
Number of bottles produced per day by plant at
Coimbatore Chennai
Coca-cola 15, 000 15, 000
Fanta 30, 000 10, 000
Thumps-up 20, 000 50, 000
Cost per day 600 400
Market survey indicates that during the month of April there will be a demand of
200,000 bottles of Coca-cola, 400,000 bottles of Fanta, and 440,000 bottles of
Thumps-up.
How many days each plant is run in April so as to minimize the production cost,
while still meeting the market demand?
Example 2
Two types of products A and B. Profit is 4 on type A Profit is 5 on type B. Both A
and B are produced by X and Y machines
Machine Machine
Products X Y
A 2 minutes 3 minutes
B 2 minutes 2 minutes
Machine X is available for maximum 5 hours and 30 minutes during any
working day. Machine Y is available for maximum 8 hours during any working
day
- Formulate the problem as a LP problem to maximize the profit.
Example 3
Sporting Goods produces general baseball gloves and catcher's gloves. A glove is
produced through sewing process, finishing process and packaging /
transportation process. During the next month, this company can use 900 hours
of sewing process, 300 hours of finishing process and 100 hours of
packaging/transportation process. The amount of time (hours) in each process to
produce one glove and profit per item are as follows:
Packaging/
Product Sewing Finishing Profit
Transportation
General glove 1 1/2 1/8 $20
Catcher’s
3/2 1/3 1/4 $40
glove

Develop a linear programming model which can maximize the total profit.