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Quickbrush Paint Company Is Developing a Linear Program to Determine

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Quickbrush Paint Company is developing a linear program to determine the optimal quantities of ingredient A and ingredient B to blend together to make oil-base and water-base paint. The oil-base paint contains 90 percent A and 10 percent B, whereas the water-base paint contains 30 percent A and 70 percent B. Quickbrush currently has 10,000 gallons of ingredient A and 5,000 gallons of ingredient B in inventory and cannot obtain more at this time. Assuming that x represents the number of gallons of oil-base paint, and y represents the gallons of water-base paint, which constraint is correctly represents the constraint on ingredient A?

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Definitions:

Systematic Risk

The risk inherent to the entire market or market segment, which cannot be reduced through diversification.

Total Risk

The complete range of risks involved in an investment, encompassing both systematic and unsystematic risks.

Expected Return

The anticipated amount of profit or loss an investment is expected to generate over a given period.

Securities

Financial instruments that represent ownership positions in corporations (stocks), creditor relationships with corporations or governmental bodies (bonds), or rights to ownership as represented by an option.