3 Transportation problems In these problems, we determine a transportation
schedule in order to find the cheapest way of transporting a product from
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Let us now solve some of these types of linear programming problems:
Example 6 (Diet problem): A dietician wishes to mix two types of foods in such a
way that vitamin contents of the mixture contain atleast 8 units of vitamin A and 10
units of vitamin C Food ‘I’ contains 2 units/kg of vitamin A and 1 unit/kg of vitamin C