Phil Bert's Nuthouse Is Preparing a New Product,a Blend of Mixed

question 21

Essay

Phil Bert's Nuthouse is preparing a new product,a blend of mixed nuts.The product must be at most 50 percent peanuts,must have more almonds than cashews,and must be at least 10 percent pecans.The blend will be sold in one-pound bags.Phil's goal is to mix the nuts in such a manner that all conditions are satisfied and the cost per bag is minimized.Peanuts cost $1 per pound.Cashews cost $3 per pound.Almonds cost $5 per pound and pecans cost $6 per pound.Formulate this problem as a linear program.

---

Definitions:

Grocery Items

Products and goods available for purchase in supermarkets and grocery stores, typically including food, beverages, and household necessities.

Encoding Specificity Principle

A principle in psychology which posits that memory is most effectively retrieved when the information available at the time of recall is similar to the information available at the time the memory was encoded.

Procedural Memory

relates to the type of long-term memory responsible for knowing how to perform different actions and skills, essentially memory of the process of doing things.

Serial-Order Effect

The psychological phenomenon that the order of information presentation affects memory recall, often seen in lists or sequences.