SOLUTION: A painter has exactly 32 units of yellow dye and 54 units of green dye. He plans to mix as many gallons as possible of color A and color B. Each gallon of color A requires 4 units
Question 1052614: A painter has exactly 32 units of yellow dye and 54 units of green dye. He plans to mix as many gallons as possible of color A and color B. Each gallon of color A requires 4 units of yellow dye and 1 unit of green dye. Each gallon of color B requires 1 unit of yellow dye and 6 units of green dye. Find the maximum number of gallons he can mix. Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let x be the number of gallons of A made and y be the number of gallons of B made.
Look at the units of yellow dye used for one gallon of A and B,
Look at the units of green dye used,
Plot those lines and look at the values of the feasible region.
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(0,9):
(6,8):<--- Maximum number of gallons
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