To minimise the cost of the food, meeting the dietary requirements of the staple
food of the adolescent students of your school.
Task to be done
(i)
Make a survey of atleast 100 students to find which staple food they
consume on daily basis.
(ii)
Select two food items constituting one cereal and one pulse.
(iii)
Find from dietician the minimum requirement of protein and carbohydrate
for an adolescent and also find the content of protein and carbohydrate
in 1 kg. of selected cereal and pulse respectively.
(iv)
Find the minimum cost of the selected cereal and pulse from market.
(v)
Formulate the corresponding Linear Programming problem.
(vi)
Solve the problem graphically.
(vii)
Interpret the result.