CWD Agro Inc produces two pepper sauces Spicy Diablo and Red

CWD Agro Inc. produces two pepper sauces. Spicy Diablo and Red Baron. These sauces are both made by blending two ingredients. A and B. A certain level of flexibility is permitted in the formulae for these products. The allowable percentages. along with revenue and cost data. are given in the following table. Up to 80 quarts of A and 60 quails of B could be purchased. CWD can sell as much of these sauces as it produces. Formulate an LP whose objective is to maximize the net profit from the sale of the sauces. 20 marks

Solution

Let X be Spicy Diablo and Y be Red Baron

0.25x+0.75y <=80

0.40x+0.50y<=60

1.7x+2.5y >=4.0

z = 4x+3y Our objective is to maximise Z