Solve This Linear Programming Mixture Problem: Kim and Lynn Produce

question 56

Essay

Solve this linear programming mixture problem: Kim and Lynn produce pottery vases and bowls. A vase requires 25 oz of clay and 5 oz of glaze. A bowl requires 20 oz of clay and 10 oz of glaze. There are 500 oz of clay available and 160 oz of glaze available. The profit on one vase is $5 and the profit on one bowl is $3. How should Kim and Lynn schedule production to optimize profit?

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Definitions:

Method of Savings

A measure of retention in which the difference between the number of repetitions originally required to learn a list and the number of repetitions required to relearn the list after a certain amount of time has elapsed is calculated.

Ebbinghaus

A psychologist best known for his research on memory, particularly for discovering the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

Anterograde Amnesia

Failure to remember events that occurred after physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma.

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.