Expert: Abe Mantell - 7/2/2009

Question
a fruit grower has 200 acres of land available to raise two crops, A and B. It takes 1 day to trim an acre of crop A and 2 to trim an acres of crop B, and crop and 0.1 day to pick an acre of crop B,and there  are 30 days available for picking. The profit is $120 per acre for crop A and $200 for crop B. Find the number of acres of crop A to planted and let y be the number of acres of crop B to be planted.Formulate but do not solve the linear programming problem.

Answer
Let x=# of acres of Crop A
... y=# of acres of Crop B

"<=" means "less than or equal to"
x + y <= 200
1x + 2y <= ???, you did not indicate the # of days for trimming!
?x + 0.1y <= 30, you did not indicate how long it takes to pick an acre of Crop A

x >= 0 and y >= 0

Maximize Profit, P = 120x + 200 y