A farmer grows tomatoes and peas on her 125 hectres piece of land.

It costs $20 000

dollars grow a hectare of tomatoes and $10 000 to grow a hectare of peas. However ,
Agri Bank gave her only $1 500 000 as loan. It takes 18 working-hours to grow an
hectare of tomatoes and 6 working-hours to grow a hectare of peas. She wants to
devote 1080 working-hours for the whole job. If the profits from a hectare of tomatoes
and a hectare of peas are $40 000 and $25 000, respectively. How many hectares of
each should she grow to maximize her total profit? What is the maximum possible
profit?

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Question: What is the problem of the farmer?

Answer: The problem of the farmer is that of maximising her profit having constraints
on available land, production costs, and the number of working hours

Question: What are the constraits?

Answer:

i) Let x1 and x2 be the decision variables of the number of hectares for beans
and peas respectively.

Then x1 + x2 125 constraint on available land.

ii) Her total growing expenses are 20000x1 + 10000x2 1500 000
Or 2x1 + x2 150 constraint on expenses

iii) The total number of required working hours is 18x 1 + 6x2 1080
Or 3x1 + x2 180 constraint on working hours

iv) x1 0, and x2 0 non negativity constraints

Thus the problem is to maximise the profit function

f ( x1 , x2 ) = 40000 x1 + 25 x2
(1)

subject to the constraints

x1 + x2 125
2 x2 + x2 150


3 x1 + x2 180
(2)
and

x1 0, x2 0