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Name Usama Arshad Sap Id 2218 Subject Operation Research Teacher Sir Sajjad Sidiqui Question No 1

The document contains 5 questions from an operations research assignment. The questions involve optimizing feeds for dairy cattle to minimize costs, determining the optimal allocation of production processes to meet demands at minimum cost, calculating the profit-maximizing combination of products to make given constraints, minimizing transportation costs in shipping between warehouses and outlets, and determining an optimal buying, selling and storage plan for refrigerators to maximize profit over 3 months.

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Name Usama Arshad Sap Id 2218 Subject Operation Research Teacher Sir Sajjad Sidiqui Question No 1

The document contains 5 questions from an operations research assignment. The questions involve optimizing feeds for dairy cattle to minimize costs, determining the optimal allocation of production processes to meet demands at minimum cost, calculating the profit-maximizing combination of products to make given constraints, minimizing transportation costs in shipping between warehouses and outlets, and determining an optimal buying, selling and storage plan for refrigerators to maximize profit over 3 months.

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Name Usama Arshad

Sap Id 2218

Subject Operation research

Teacher Sir sajjad sidiqui

Question no 1;

A cheese producer must feed her stock of Jersey cattle daily at least 550 units of nutritional element
A, 500 units of nutritional element B, and 820 units of nutritional element C. She has available two
feeds. One pound of Feed X costs 80 cents and contains 2 units of A, 5 units of B, and 7 units of C.
One pound of Feed Y costs 30 cents and contains 3 units of A, 1 unit of B, and 2 units of C. The
cheese producer wants to determine what combination of the two feeds will meet the dietary
requirements of her Jerseys and keep costs at a minimum. Determine the least expensive adequate
feeding diet.

Answer:
Question no 2:

A plant has two processes it can use to produce Products A and B. An hour's operation of Process 1
produces 3 units of A and 6 of B and costs $25; an hour's operation of Process 2 produces 5 units of
A and 5 of B and costs $20. The plant must produce at least 90 units of A and 120 of B over the next
week. How many hours should each process be used so that demands are met and costs minimized?

Answer:
Question no 3:

A small plastics company makes novelty figures for sale at political conventions. This spring the
company has available 450 hr of labor and 825 spare units of plastic for use in the production of
donkeys and elephants. Each elephant requires 2 hr of labor and 7 units of plastic; each donkey
requires 5 hr of labor and 5 units of plastic. Elephants sell for $10, and up to 100 can be sold this
summer; donkeys sell for $7, with a market for 80. How many of each should the company produce
to maximize income over the coming summer?

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Question no 4:

A canned goods supplier has two warehouses serving four outlets. The East Coast
Warehouse has 600 cases on hand and the West Coast Warehouse has 1000
cases
on hand. The shipping costs, in cents per case, and the requirements for the four
outlets, all located east of the Mississippi, are given in the following table.
Determine a shipping schedule that minimizes transportation costs.

Answer:
Question no 05:

An appliance dealer sells small refrigerators


to the college market. This July, 25 units are on hand. For the next 3 months, the dealer
can buy from manufacture up to 65 refrigerators each month, and can sell to the
student population up to 100 units each month, at the following price.
Refrigerator The dealer has storage facilities for 45 units, but must pay a $7/unit/month
storage charge for each refrigerator stored for sale in a subsequent month. Determine
an optimal buying, selling and storing plan.

Answer:

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