The Village Butcher Shop Traditionally Makes Its Meat Loaf from a Combination

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Essay

The Village Butcher Shop traditionally makes its meat loaf from a combination of lean ground beef and ground pork. The ground beef contains 80 percent meat and 20 percent fat, and costs the shop 80 cents per pound; the ground pork contains 68 percent meat and 32 percent fat, and costs 60 cents per pound. Formulate a linear program to determine the amount each kind of meat that the shop should use in each pound of meat loaf if it wants to minimize its cost and to keep the fat content of the meat loaf to no more than 25 percent.

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