document.write( "Question 1165007: The Cream and Custard Bakery makes both coffee cakes and Danish in large pans. The main
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document.write( "ingredients are flour and sugar. There are 25 pounds of flour and 16 pounds of sugar available
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document.write( "and the maximum demand for coffee cakes is 8. Five pounds of flour and 2 pounds of sugar
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document.write( "are required to make one pan of coffee cake, and 5 pounds of flour and 4 pounds of sugar are
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document.write( "required to make one pan of Danish. One pan of coffee cake has a profit of PhP 1, and one pan
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document.write( "of Danish has a profit of PhP 5. Determine the number of pans of cake and Danish that the
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document.write( "bakery must produce each day so that profit will be maximized. \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #851818 by ikleyn(52781)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! . \n" ); document.write( "The Cream and Custard Bakery makes both coffee cakes and Danish in large pans. The main \n" ); document.write( "ingredients are flour and sugar. There are 25 pounds of flour and 16 pounds of sugar available \n" ); document.write( "and the maximum demand for coffee cakes is 8. Five pounds of flour and 2 pounds of sugar \n" ); document.write( "are required to make one pan of coffee cake, and 5 pounds of flour and 4 pounds of sugar are \n" ); document.write( "required to make one pan of Danish. One pan of coffee cake has a profit of PhP 1, and one pan \n" ); document.write( "of Danish has a profit of PhP 5. Determine the number of pans of cake and Danish that the \n" ); document.write( "bakery must produce each day so that profit will be maximized. \n" ); document.write( "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " This problem is simple: it is accessible to a third-grader.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " Therefore, I will not write a standard solution using Linear programming method,\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " but will show a simple arithmetic solution.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "From the problem, it is clear that the maximum number of cakes is 5.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Indeed, the bakery can make 5 coffee cakes, using 5*5 = 25 pounds of flour and 5*2 = 10 pounds of sugar.\r\n" ); document.write( "It can not make more than 5 cakes, either coffee cakes or Danish.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "So, our task is to make a schedule (a Table) showing possible cakes that can be prepared, and possible profit.\r\n" ); document.write( "Obviously, we should spend as much of the ingredients as allowed by restrictions.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Also, from the given data, it is obvious, that for any given number of total cakes, the bakery should \r\n" ); document.write( "make as many Danish pans as possible, then adding coffee cakes until fitting the restrictions.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "It is because the first limiting restriction is the amount of floor, and regarding the floor, \r\n" ); document.write( "the coffee cakes and the Danish pans are in equal position, while Danish provides greater profit.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " the number coffee Danish Floor Sugar Profit\r\n" ); document.write( " of cakes cakes pans (Php)\r\n" ); document.write( " (total)\r\n" ); document.write( " --------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n" ); document.write( " 5 5 0 5*5 = 25 5*2 = 10 5*1 = 5\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " 4 0 4 0*5+4*5 = 20 0*2+4*4 = 16 4*5 = 20 (*)\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " 4 1 3 1*5+3*5 = 20 1+3*5 = 16\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " 4 2 2 2*5+2*5 = 20 2*2+2*4 = 12 2*2+2*4 = 12\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "There is no sense to continue the table further.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Looking into the table, we mark the optimum solution by (*).\r\n" ); document.write( "It provides the maximum profit of Php 20 .\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "ANSWER. 4 Danish pans and 0 (zero) coffee cakes satisfy the restrictions and provide the maximum profit of Php 20.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Solved.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |