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Yibela and Yordanos run a daycare and need to choose lunches to minimize costs while meeting nutritional requirements for preschoolers. They provide the nutritional content and costs of food options. The requirements are for 400-600 calories including less than 30% from fat, at least 60mg vitamin C, 12g protein, 2 slices bread, and 1 cup liquid. A linear program is formulated to choose foods minimizing costs within these constraints.

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Quantitative Analysis Assignment

Yibela and Yordanos run a daycare and need to choose lunches to minimize costs while meeting nutritional requirements for preschoolers. They provide the nutritional content and costs of food options. The requirements are for 400-600 calories including less than 30% from fat, at least 60mg vitamin C, 12g protein, 2 slices bread, and 1 cup liquid. A linear program is formulated to choose foods minimizing costs within these constraints.

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Debre Tabor University

Department of Management
Individual Assignment for the course Quantitative Analysis

1. Yibela and Yordanos run a day care for preschoolers. They are trying to decide what to feed the
children for lunches. They would like to keep their costs down, but also need to meet the nutritional
requirements of the children. They have already decided to go with peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches, and some combination of graham crackers, milk, and orange juice. The nutritional
content of each food choice and its cost are given in the table below.

Food Item Calories from fat Total calories Vitamin c Protein (g) Cost ($)
(mg)
Bread (1 slice) 10 70 0 3 5
Peanut butter (tbsp) 75 100 0 4 4
Strawberry jelly 0 50 3 0 7
(1 tbsp)
Graham cracker 20 60 0 1 8
(1 cracker)
Milk (1 cup) 70 150 2 8 15
Juice (1 cup) 0 100 120 1 35

The nutritional requirements are as follows. Each child should receive between 400 and 600 calories. No
more than 30 percent of the total calories should come from fat. Each child should consume at least 60
milligrams (mg) of vitamin C and 12 grams (g) of protein. Furthermore, for practical reasons, each child
needs exactly 2 slices of bread (to make the sandwich), at least twice as much peanut butter as jelly, and
at least 1 cup of liquid (milk and/or juice).

Yibela and Yordanos would like to select the food choices for each child which minimize cost while
meeting the above requirements.

A. Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.


B. Solve this model using lindo and submit the software output.

2. Web mercantile sales many household products through an on-line catalog . The company needs
substantial warehouse space for storing its goods. Plans now are being made for leasing
warehouse storage space over the next 5 months. Just how much space will be required in each of
these months is known. However, since these space requirements are quite different, it may be
most economical to lease only the amount needed each month on a month by-month basis. On
the other hand, the additional cost for leasing space for additional months is much less than for
the first month, so it may be less expensive to lease the maximum amount needed for the entire 5
months. Another option is the intermediate approach of changing the total amount of space leased
(by adding a new lease and/or having an old lease expire) at least once but not every month. The
space requirement and the leasing costs for the various leasing periods are as follows:
A. Formulate a linear programming model
B. Solve the model in “A” using Lindo and attach the result in your report.

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